title: Toward an integrated gender-linked model of aggression subtypes in early and middle childhood.
abstract: An integrative model is proposed for understanding the development of physical and relational aggression in early and middle childhood. The central goal was to posit a new theoretical framework that expands on existing social-cognitive and gender schema models (i.e., Social Information-Processing Model of Children's Adjustment [N. R. Crick & K. A. Dodge, 1994] and the Schematic-Processing Model of Sex Role Stereotyping [C. L. Martin & C. F. Halverson, 1981]). The proposed model suggests several individual- and group-level effects and the available evidence for each of these hypotheses is discussed. The ways in which the proposed model may guide future research in the field are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260-4110, USA. jostrov@buffalo.edu
authors.forename: Jamie M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ostrov
authors.forename: Stephanie A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Godleski
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012737:Sex Factors; D012938:Social Perception