Gender-biased Perceptions of Preschoolers? Behavior: How Much Is Aggression and Prosocial Behavior in the Eye of the Beholder?

Ostrov, Jamie M.; Crick, Nicki R.; Keating, Caroline F.

doi:10.1007/s11199-005-2681-6

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“…Biases towards the attribution of hostile intent and towards aggressive responding were examined in parents and children by assessing responses to ambiguous social scenarios. As well as depictions of overt provocation (i.e., direct physical or verbal attack), scenarios included relational provocations (i.e., situations involving harm inflicted via deliberate manipulation of, or damage to, social relationships), so that aggressive behaviours typical of both males and females were represented (Crick et al, 2006;Pellegrini & Roseth, 2006;Crick et al, 1997;Ostrov et al, 2005). Parental assessments examined both the general tendency towards attribution of hostile intent and child-specific attributions.…”

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The Attribution of Hostile Intent in Mothers, Fathers and Their Children

Halligan

Cooper

Healy

et al. 2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Child externalising symptoms are associated with a bias towards attributing hostile intent to others. We examined the role of parental attributions in the development of this hostile attribution bias in children. The parents of 134 children aged 5-7 years responded to hypothetical social scenarios examining a) their general tendency to attribute hostile intent to the ambiguous behaviour of others, and b) hostile attributions made specifically to their child. Children's own attributions of hostile intent and levels of externalising symptomatology were assessed. The results indicated that child externalising symptoms were positively associated with both a generalised tendency towards the attribution of hostile intent and child-specific hostile attributions in parents. Child externalising symptoms were themselves associated with hostile attributions made by the child. However, no direct associations were observed between parental and child attributions of hostile intent. Thus, although the results suggest a role for parental social information processing biases in the development of child externalising symptoms, a direct transmission of such biases from parent to child was not supported.

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The Attribution of Hostile Intent in Mothers, Fathers and Their Children

Halligan

Cooper

Healy

et al. 2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…However, the subjects viewed such behavior by girls as aggression rather than as play [43]. On the other hand, in similar studies the sex of the children was made clear to observers, and when the sex of the aggressor and the target was known, subjects rated boys and girls as equally aggressive; neverthe-less, boys' aggression was seen as more intentional and masculine [44,45].…”

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Adolescents' Predictions of Aggressive Behavioral Patterns in Different Settings

Romero¹

2011

TOPSYJ

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Few studies have examined adolescents' predictions of aggression involving other adolescents; previous research has focused mainly on studying the perceptions of physical aggression. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore adolescents' predictions of physical, verbal, and indirect aggression in hypothetical scenarios of aggression and to establish any sex differences in these predictions. A total of 653 adolescents aged 14 to 18 participated in the study. The sex of the aggressor and the sex of the target were manipulated, and participants' predictions of the likelihood of aggressive behavioral patterns were measured through the use of a questionnaire. Results showed a significant interaction between the two independent variables. More specifically, results showed that (i) when the aggressor and the target were both males, the subjects more often predicted that the aggressor would use physical and verbal aggression; (ii) when the aggressor and the target were both females, subjects predicted that the aggressor would use more indirect aggression; (iii) males predicted the use of physical aggression more readily when the target was a male; (iv) females predicted the use of verbal and indirect aggression more readily than males when the target was a female; and (v) the situations in which subjects predicted that the aggressor would use more physical, verbal and indirect aggression were when the aggression took place between peers, followed by situations in which aggression took place in a domestic context.

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“…On the other hand, when parents do intervene in children's misdeeds, boys are more likely than girls to receive power assertive treatment (Maccoby & Jacklin, 1974;Ostrov, Crick, & Keating, 2005;Ostrov, Woods, Jansen, Casas, & Crick, 2004). Harsh discipline has been found more often directed toward sons than daughters (McKee et al, 2007), and research on child exposure to marital discord ( J. P. McHale, 1995) reported that sons were more likely to be the object of hostile parenting.…”

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The Socialization of Sibling Rivalry

Hart

2010

Handbook of Jealousy

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Gender-biased Perceptions of Preschoolers? Behavior: How Much Is Aggression and Prosocial Behavior in the Eye of the Beholder?

Cited by 38 publications

References 23 publications

The Attribution of Hostile Intent in Mothers, Fathers and Their Children

The Attribution of Hostile Intent in Mothers, Fathers and Their Children

Adolescents' Predictions of Aggressive Behavioral Patterns in Different Settings

The Socialization of Sibling Rivalry

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