Do My Reactions Outweigh My Actions? The Relation between Reactive and Proactive Aggression with Peer Acceptance in Preschoolers
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Present Study
3. Method
3.1. Participants and Procedure
3.2. Ethical Considerations
4. Variables and Materials
4.1. Peer Acceptance
4.2. Reactive and Proactive Aggression
5. Statistical Analyses
6. Results
7. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Range Total (Raw Scores) | Mean Total (SD) | Mean Boys (SD) | Mean Girls (SD) | |||||
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Min (% of Children) | Max (% of Children) | Raw | Z | Raw | Z | Raw | Z | |
Peer Preference | 0.31 (1%) | 0.71 (1%) | 0.52 (0.09) | 0.07 (0.92) | 0.51 (0.09) | 0.04 (0.93) | 0.53 (0.09) | 0.11 (0.93) |
Reactive Aggression | 0.00 (13%) | 3 (1%) | 1.28 (0.73) | 0.00 (0.72) | 1.47 (0.67) | 0.20 (0.63) | 1.07 (0.75) | −0.23 (0.75) |
Proactive Aggression | 0.00 (54%) | 2.33 (2%) | 0.34 (0.50) | 0.00 (0.75) | 0.49 (0.59) | 0.19 (0.84) | 0.17 (0.30) | −0.22 (0.55) |
Peer Preference | Reactive Aggression | |
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Reactive Aggression | −0.18 * (−0.18 / −0.18) | - |
Proactive Aggression | −0.08 (−0.13 / 0.02) | 0.40 *** (0.38 **/0.33 **) |
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da Silva, B.M.S.; Veiga, G.; Rieffe, C.; Endedijk, H.M.; Güroğlu, B. Do My Reactions Outweigh My Actions? The Relation between Reactive and Proactive Aggression with Peer Acceptance in Preschoolers. Children 2023, 10, 1532. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10091532
da Silva BMS, Veiga G, Rieffe C, Endedijk HM, Güroğlu B. Do My Reactions Outweigh My Actions? The Relation between Reactive and Proactive Aggression with Peer Acceptance in Preschoolers. Children. 2023; 10(9):1532. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10091532
Chicago/Turabian Styleda Silva, Brenda M. S., Guida Veiga, Carolien Rieffe, Hinke M. Endedijk, and Berna Güroğlu. 2023. "Do My Reactions Outweigh My Actions? The Relation between Reactive and Proactive Aggression with Peer Acceptance in Preschoolers" Children 10, no. 9: 1532. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10091532