Psychology Development
Early Childhood
Medelein N. Moody, (2013). A Relational Aggression Intervention in Early Childhood. University of Nebraska. ProQuest LLC.
The paper was aimed at interrogating the relational aggression in early childhood and if there are interventions within the school setting that can act to reduce the aggression. This intervention is referred to as the Early Childhood Friendship Project and entailed taking stock of the changes in the behavior of the children as they undergo the study and the project. The preliminaries within the article indicates that there is usually a significant differences between the relational aggression between the boys and girls in school with the later recording a higher rate of aggression.
The study was conducted through a survey method and formal testing as the children went through the project and the teachers concerned recorded the results and any noticeable changes over time.
The results that were observed showed that there was a decrease in relational aggression at the level of the entire class as the children went through the project. Ironically, even though the analyses suggested that there was an increase in the physical aggression at the individual level, the teachers involved in the project reported a decrease in the physical aggression at the classroom level.
It was concluded hence that there is a possibility of increasing the pro-social behavior in the classroom setting as well as decreasing the aggressions.
Jeffrey R. Gagne, (2013). Early -- but modest -- gender differences in focal aspects of childhood temperament. Elsevier Ltd.
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