Does familiarity breed acceptance or contempt : prosocial children's acceptance of aggressive child co-participants /
According to recent findings in the psychological literature, when aggressive children are selected to participate in a skills training group intervention, prosocial children are often recruited as co-participants. These prosocial children have more normative behaviors and conventional beliefs abo...
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | According to recent findings in the psychological literature, when aggressive children are selected to participate in a skills training group intervention, prosocial children are often recruited as co-participants. These prosocial children have more normative behaviors and conventional beliefs about the efficacy of aggression, thus serving as positive social models. Another possible benefit of the inclusion of prosocial peers in skills training groups is an increased acceptance of these children by recruited prosocial peers. The present study hypothesized that co-participants would like target children as much as they like other classmates. The second hypothesis stated that co-participants' relative liking of the target children would be higher than other classmates' relative liking for target children. The last hypothesis stated that target children with a co-participant in their classroom would have higher mean acceptance scores than target children with no co-participant in their classroom. Participants were third- and fourth-grade students selected to participate in a prevention study for aggressive children. Results indicated that the first two hypotheses were supported; however, the third hypothesis was not supported. Findings have implications for future use of prosocial children as therapeutic agents for aggressive children. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major Subject: School Psychology". |
| Physical Description: | viii, 109 leaves ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-104). |