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标题：Measuring School-Children's Aggressive and Prosocial Behavior: Comparison of Ratings of Different Informants
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作者：KERESTEŠ, Gordana
期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2006
卷号：15
期号：1-2 (81-82)
页码：241-264
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：The aim of this study was to compare five measures of aggressive and prosocial behavior of school children. Data were collected from elementary school children in grades 5th to 8th, their parents, classmates, and homeroom teachers. All five measures of aggression (self-ratings, peer ratings, home-room teachers' ratings, mother ratings, and father ratings) correlated significantly. Self-ratings of prosocial behavior correlated significantly only with father ratings, while the other four measures of prosocial behavior were in significant intercorrelations. All the correlations were somewhat higher for aggressive in comparison with prosocial behavior. Analyses of the concordance between different informants in identifying the most and the least aggressive and prosocial children roughly confirmed the results of the correlational analyses. However, besides self- -ratings, peer ratings also showed poorer concordance with other measures. As expected, and in accordance with numerous previous research findings, boys were rated as more aggressive than girls, and girls as more prosocial than boys by all five informants. Advantages and disadvantages of each measure employed in the study, were highlighted in the discussion. Practical implications of the results obtained and importance of assessing behavior in multiple contexts were also discussed.
关键词：elementary school children; aggressiveness; prosocial behavior; situational specifics; gender differences