Associations of Preschoolers' Language Skills with Aggressive Behaviour, Positive Peer Relations, and the Hostile Intent Attribution from Preschool to Early Adolescence

Autor/inn/en	Rose, Elisabeth; Ebert, Susanne; Weinert, Sabine
Titel	Associations of Preschoolers' Language Skills with Aggressive Behaviour, Positive Peer Relations, and the Hostile Intent Attribution from Preschool to Early Adolescence
Quelle	In: European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19 (2022) 6, S.828-846 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ebert, Susanne)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1740-5629
DOI	10.1080/17405629.2021.1978971
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Language Skills; Aggression; Behavior Problems; Peer Relationship; Intention; Adolescents; Predictor Variables; Psychological Patterns; Family Characteristics; Individual Characteristics; Foreign Countries; Child Behavior; Grade 1; Germany; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Peer-Beziehungen; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Prädiktor; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ausland; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Deutschland
Abstract	Deficits in language skills are a risk factor for later aggressive behaviour. However, previous research has mainly addressed clinical or high-risk samples and relations between language and aggressive behaviour in preschoolers and children in primary school. Based on a German longitudinal project with N = 547 typically developing children, the present study investigated whether the effects of young children's language skills on their aggressive behaviour and their hostile intent attribution (HIA) can still be observed in adolescence. Path models showed that language at age 3 predicted aggressive behaviour (measured with self-ratings of various facets of aggression) and HIA (assessed with the Intent Attributions and Feelings of Distress Measure adopted from) over a 10-year period, while controlling for important child and family characteristics and initial levels of aggressive behaviour at age 3. Moreover, the predictive impact of early language on aggressive behaviour was mediated by HIA but not by parental ratings of their children's positive peer relations with classmates at age 7. Implications and directions for future research are proposed. (As Provided).
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