Download or read book Qualitative Analysis of Relational Aggression in Young Adult Women written by Allyson L. Galloway and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative research study reviews the literature on relational aggression, including defining the concept of relational aggression, detailing its development, and examining its effects on both victims and initiators. Focus group research was conducted utilizing young adult women in a college setting to examine the experiences of these women with relational aggression in their lives. The transcribed focus group session was analyzed for themes and patterns providing valuable information about the young adult womens' experiences with relational aggression in their lives. The seven themes that arose in the data included: backstabbing, or 'if you have something to say, say it to my face;' the use of sexual slurs in rumor spreading; both the denial and the eventual realization, of the hurtfulness of rumor spreading; a generalization that one simply does not get along with other girls; exclusion from the social group; the influence of the setting, comparing high school and university settings; and the effects that these experiences have had on the women themselves. These themes were described in detail and implications of this research were discussed. This article concludes with a review of areas for future research and the potential limitations of this study.
Download or read book The Lasting Effects of Relational Aggression on Women s Friendships with Other Women Including Their Relational Capacity for Others and Themselves written by Claudia D. Legarreta and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinct from physical aggression where acts are meant to harm another's physical well-being, relational aggression is a covert mean of harming others through damage of social relationships. The present study explored the effect of relational aggression experienced during adolescence on adult female friendships, including female relational capacity. The effects of relational aggression on women's friendships are long lasting, and, therefore, it is important to learn as much as possible about the ways women develop friendships with one another and how they bridge the gap between girlhood and womanhood. This qualitative study provides a contextual understanding of the lasting effects of relational aggression on women's friendships with other women. Specifically, the research investigated the lived experiences of ten women who experienced relational aggression in adolescence and its current influence on their friendships with women using a phenomenological approach. The researcher employed individual in-depth interviews that were transcribed and analyzed for thematic content. Within the participant's interviews, the researcher identified common themes among experiences through the qualitative data analysis included how the participants defined relational aggression, how the participants develop their friendship circle, the messages given to them about how to handle conflicts, how they express their anger, and the important role female friendships have had on their development. The results of this study may benefit women who experienced relational aggression in adolescence as well as assist mental health care providers to understand better the role that relational images formed in adolescence has on the future friendships of adult women with one another.
Download or read book Relational Aggression in College Women written by Jessica Elise Bondi and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Girls and Aggression written by Marlene M. Moretti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Represents both sides of the problem of violence in the lives of girls – girls as victims of violence; and girls as perpetrators of violence. To fully understand the problem of violence it is essential to consider both sides of the ‘violence coin’. - Provides perspectives from multiple disciplines using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies thereby providing a fuller understanding of the issues. - Provides a bridge from research on causal factors and developmental course to research on intervention.
Download or read book A Study of Relational Aggression written by Jacqui Cairone and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relational Aggression in Young Adults written by Violet Lim and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Female Relational Aggression A Case Study Investigation of the Transitioning Out Process written by Lynne Lunsford and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The developmental trajectory of relational aggression (RA) can launch as early as preschool and escalate from early to middle childhood, yet it is a phenomenon that may or may not endure the adult years. There is adequate understanding of relational aggression in the active phase, yet research that edifies the transitioning out process is dearth. Through a qualitative case study research design, the narratives of six females who ceased using RA enlightened the process of desistance. All females described the transitioning out process as having an identifiable turning point accompanied by cognitive and emotional shifts associated with recognizing, valuing, and experiencing quality relationships. Many females identified their faith and spirituality or a residential relocation as a significant contributing factor. All females perceived themselves today as feeling more content and secure, and other-oriented in relationships. Findings of this research birth a preliminary understanding of RA desistance, yet record that a heterogeneous property exists with respect to the chronological trajectory of RA cessation.
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression written by Daniel J. Flannery and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 1445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a team of leading experts comes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the most current research including the complex issue of violence and violent behavior. The handbook examines a range of theoretical, policy, and research issues and provides a comprehensive overview of aggressive and violent behavior. The breadth of coverage is impressive, ranging from research on biological factors related to violence and behavior-genetics to research on terrrorism and the impact of violence in different cultures. The authors examine violence from international cross-cultural perspectives, with chapters that examine both quantitative and qualitative research. They also look at violence at multiple levels: individual, family, neighborhood, cultural, and across multiple perspectives and systems, including treatment, justice, education, and public health.
Download or read book The Development of Relational Aggression written by Sarah M. Coyne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research over the last few decades has revealed that individuals use a variety of mechanisms to hurt one another, many of which are not physical in nature. In this volume, editors Sarah M. Coyne and Jamie M. Ostrov turn their focus on relational aggression, behavior that is intended to cause harm to another individual's relationships or social standing in the group (e.g., gossiping, social exclusion, and spreading malicious rumors). Unlike physical aggression, the scars of relational aggression are more difficult to detect. However, victims (and their aggressors) may experience strong and long-lasting consequences, including reduced self-esteem, loneliness, depression, anxiety, and more. Over the past 25 years, there has been a growing body of literature on relational aggression and other non-physical forms of aggression that have focused predominantly on gender differences, development, and risk and protective factors. In this volume, the focus turns to the development of relational aggression during childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood. Here, Coyne, Ostrov, and their contributing authors examine a number of risk factors and socializing agents or models (e.g., parenting, peers, media, the classroom) that lead to the development of relational aggression over time. An understanding of how these behaviors develop will inform readers of important intervention strategies to curb the use of relational aggression in schools, peer groups, and in family relationships. The Development of Relational Aggression provides scholars, researchers, practitioners, students, and parents with an extensive resource that will help move the field forward in our understanding of the development of relational aggression for the future.
Download or read book Of Mice and Women written by Kaj Bjorkqvist and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive compilation and discussion of research findings on female aggression from anthropology, social psychology, animal research, case studies, and representations in literature. This multidisciplinary approach will address such questions as: 'Are females less aggressive than males?' 'Is female aggressive behavior perhaps quantitatively, different than male aggressive behavior?' The book also discusses patterns of agression, the role of hormones in aggression, cultural differences, and how human aggression differs from aggression within animal species.
Download or read book Social Aggression Among Girls written by Marion K. Underwood and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While several recent popular books address the topic of girls' "meanness" to one another, this volume offers the first balanced, scholarly analysis of scientific knowledge in this area. Integrating current research on emotion regulation, gender, and peer relations, the book examines how girls are socialized to experience and express anger and aggression from infancy through adolescence. Considered are the developmental functions of such behaviors as gossip, friendship manipulation, and social exclusion; consequences for both victims and perpetrators; and approaches to intervention and prevention. Presenting innovative research models and methods, this is an accessible and much-needed synthesis for researchers, professionals, and students. Key Features: * Hot topic, garnering coverage in general media (e.g., The New York Times Magazine) * Accessibly written, with examples clarifying abstract points * Covers and integrates both physical and social aggression
Download or read book The Mean Girls Influence on The Other Sister written by Ashley O. Durkee and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social relationships play an important role in development. While research on social relationships has focused on many different populations and many different age groups, one population has received much less attention in the literature: adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). The majority of research on adults with ID seems to have focused on aggressive behavior, namely physical aggression. Within the general population, however, another form of aggression, relational aggression, has become an increasingly prevalent topic of interest. This form of aggression has been shown to negatively impact social relationships of both perpetrators and victims (e.g. Crick & Grotpeter, 1995; Murray-Close & Crick, 2006). If relational aggression is damaging in the general population, it could be even more damaging for persons with ID who may lack appropriate coping behaviors. Thus, it is important to evaluate the prevalence and correlates of both relational and physical aggression within the ID population, so that appropriate interventions may be designed to increase the quality of their relationships. The goal of the present study was to focus on the phenomenon of relational aggression in this population. Three specific hypotheses were tested: females will be rated more highly than males on relationally aggressive behaviors; males will be rated more highly than females on physically aggressive behaviors; and those participants who are rated as aggressive, especially those rated as relationally aggressive, will report greater amounts of psychosocial maladjustment than their nonaggressive peers. 81 residents at a private residential facility for adults with ID completed a sociometric peer nomination interview, the Beck Depression Inventory - Second Edition, and the Beck Anxiety Inventory. Results indicated that females were rated significantly higher than males on relational aggression. Additionally, females were rated as higher than males on overt aggression, though this difference was not significant. Finally, based on sociometric ratings, participants who were rated highly on either type of aggression were significantly more likely to be rejected by peers, though participants with high aggression ratings did not differ significantly from their nonaggressive peers on BAI or BDI-II scores.
Download or read book Understanding Peer Influence in Children and Adolescents written by Mitchell J. Prinstein and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists, educators, and parents of teens have long recognized the potency of peer influences on children and youth, but until recently, questions of how and why adolescents emulate their peers were largely overlooked. This book presents a comprehensive framework for understanding the processes by which peers shape each other's attitudes and behavior, and explores implications for intervention and prevention. Leading authorities share compelling findings on such topics as how drug use, risky sexual behavior, and other deviant behaviors "catch on" among certain peer groups or cliques; the social, cognitive, developmental, and contextual factors that strengthen or weaken the power of peer influence; and the nature of positive peer influences and how to support them.
Download or read book Young Women s Narrative Accounts of Experiencing Social Aggression in Adolescence written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has seen a rise in research on social, relational and indirect aggression, with a burgeoning focus only recently on the psychosocial consequences of being a target of such behaviours. It is widely understood that experiencing social aggression can trigger internal distress for children and adolescents, but far less is known about the nature and extent of longer-term psychosocial consequences. In this qualitative study, I aim to begin filling this gap by exploring how young women make meaning from experiences of social aggression in adolescence, with a particular focus on how they understand the impact of these experiences on their sense of self and relation to others in adulthood. Seven women between the ages of 25 and 32 were interviewed using a modified collaborative narrative method (Arvay, 2003). Interviews were transcribed and interpreted in narrative form to preserve the unique voice and experience of each participant. Five themes emerged through a process of categorical-content analysis as described by Lieblich, Tuval-Mashiach & Zilber (1998). Themes address participants' meaning-making following experiences of social aggression in terms of the (1) struggle to understand, (2) loss of trust in relationship, (3) changes in sense of self, (4) psychosocial responses, and (5) process of reframing of the experience in adulthood. The themes are discussed within the context of relevant qualitative and quantitative literature on the psychosocial consequence of social, relational and indirect aggression in adolescence and adulthood. Implications for school and community counselling practice and suggestions for future research are examined.
Download or read book Constructing a Measure of Relational Aggression Using Rasch Analysis written by Ariana P. Rebesco and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increasing amount of attention has been focused on a new form of aggression, relational aggression. However, the behaviors associated with relational aggression are often subtle and difficult to detect. Consequently, far less attention has been given to measurement of relational aggression than it requires. Insufficient forms of measurement have resulted in unreliable and potentially invalid inferences regarding the construct. In order to address this need, the current study initiated the process of constructing and validating a broad measure of aggression, including relational aggression. The Young Adult Conflict Resolution and Aggression Questionnaire - Self-report (YACRA-S) was completed by college students residing in a university dormitory (N = 108). Contemporary (Rasch, 1960, 1980) analyses were conducted on the data collected with this measure, providing empirical support for the multidimensionality of the broad aggression construct and supporting previous conclusions that relational aggression is most appropriately measured as a distinct construct. Further studies are necessary to gather sufficient empirically-based reliability and validity evidence for the YACRA-S, with the eventual goal of constructing a measure of relational aggression that provides more reliable and valid inferences than current methods.
Download or read book Communication Yearbook 40 written by Elisia L. Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication Yearbook 40 completes four decades of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. In the final Communication Yearbook volume, editor Elisia L. Cohen includes chapters representing international and interdisciplinary scholarship, demonstrating the broad global interests of the International Communication Association. The contents include summaries of communication research programs that represent the most innovative work currently. Emphasizing timely disciplinary concerns and enduring theoretical questions, this volume will be valuable to scholars throughout the communication discipline and beyond.
Download or read book The Development of Social Cognition written by Suzanne Hala and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Development of Social Cognition presents a lively, up-to-date examination of both the classical issues and contemporary understanding of theory and research in social cognitive development. The initial chapters highlight one of the central, theoretical tensions in the field, which is whether the development of understanding people is fundamentally different from understanding things. Subsequent chapters are devoted to development across specific areas of social cognition from infancy through to adolescence. The text ends with a comprehensive examination of the development of moral aspects of social cognition.
