TITLE

MECHANISMS BY WHICH FAMILY PROCESSES CONTRIBUTE TO SCHOOL-AGE BOYS' BULLYING

AUTHOR(S)

Curtner-Smith, Mary Elizabeth

PUB. DATE

September 2000

SOURCE

Child Study Journal;2000, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p169

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Examines the direct and indirect influences of maternal characteristics and family processes on school-age boys' bullying behavior. Characteristics of bullies; Characteristics of parents of bullies; Data on the intercorrelations between modeling variables, conditioning variables and setting the stage variables to boys' bullying.

ACCESSION #

4277682

Tags: BULLYING;  AGGRESSION (Psychology) in children;  FAMILIES

 

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