Aggression and Dominance Relations in Young Children.

Autor/inn/en	Missakian, Elizabeth; Hamer, Karen
Institution	Synanon Foundation, Marshall, CA.
Titel	Aggression and Dominance Relations in Young Children.
Quelle	(1974), (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Age Differences; Aggression; Animal Behavior; Antisocial Behavior; Behavior Patterns; Group Dynamics; Group Experience; Group Structure; Interaction Process Analysis; Peer Relationship; Preschool Children; Sex Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Tierverhalten; Gruppendynamik; Gruppenstruktur; Prozessanalyse; Peer-Beziehungen; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied
Abstract	This study is an attempt to apply ethological tools of observation and analysis to the social behavior of 25 communally-reared children, ages 6 months to 4 years. The focus of this analysis is aggression and dominance relations. Findings indicate that: (1) agonistic behavior reveals stable and linear dominance hierarchies for children from 6 months to 4 years; (2) there is a higher frequency of agonistic behavior between children ranked in similar status categories; (3) there are no sex differences in aggression frequency or position in the dominance hierarchy; (4) children do not fight exclusively or significantly over space/territory or possession of objects; (5) there is a positive correlation between dominance rank and submission and a negative correlation between dominance rank and aggression; and (6) there is a positive correlation between dominance rank and age. (Author/CS)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC