TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jung, Janis Moritz
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
A1  - Busching, Robert
T1  - Beyond the positive reinforcement of aggression
T2  - International Journal of Behavioral Development
N2  - Being surrounded by peers who are accepting of aggression is a significant predictor of the development and persistence of aggression in childhood and adolescence. Whereas past research has focused on social reinforcement mechanisms as the underlying processes, the present longitudinal study analysed the role of external control beliefs as an additional mediator explaining the link between peers’ acceptance of aggression and the development of aggressive behaviour. Drawing on a large community sample of N = 1,466 male and female children and adolescents from Germany aged between 10 and 18 years, results of latent structural equation modeling were consistent with the hypotheses that peer acceptance of aggression would predict external control beliefs in the social domain, which in turn, should predict aggressive behaviour over time. Additional multigroup analyses showed that the predicted pathways were consistent across gender and age groups.
KW  - adolescence
KW  - aggression
KW  - aggressive peers
KW  - childhood
KW  - control beliefs
KW  - Germany
KW  - longitudinal
Y1  - 2016
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54709
SN  - 0165-0254
SN  - 1464-0651
VL  - 42
IS  - 1
SP  - 73
EP  - 82
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  -