Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from July 2003

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from July 2003

Aggression and adaptive functioning: the bright side to bad behavior. (Introduction).
July 1, 2003... The following four papers were presented in a symposium at the meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development (Minneapolis, 2001) entitled Aggression and Adaptive Functioning: The Bright Side to Bad Behavior. The title of the...

Negative interactions and social competence for preschool children in two samples: reconsidering the interpretation of aggressive behavior for young children. (Empirical Articles).
July 1, 2003... Two samples of preschool children (471 attending Head Start, 472 in a community sample) were observed with regard to their initiations of negative interactions. Scores for three dimensions of aggression viewed as salient by pre-school teachers...

Prosocial and coercive configurations of resource control in early adolescence: a case for the well-adapted Machiavellian. (Empirical Articles).
July 1, 2003... Self- and other-reported characteristics of children who varied in their use of coercive (aggressive) and prosocial (cooperative) strategies of resource control were studied in a sample of over 1,700 children. Based on self-reported use of...

Forms and functions of adolescent peer aggression associated with high levels of peer status. (Empirical Articles).
July 1, 2003... Concurrent (Study 1) and longitudinal (Study 2) associations between adolescents' aggression, victimization, and high status were examined to test the hypothesis that forms and functions of aggression most likely to affect the status hierarchy...

Rethinking aggression: a typological examination of the functions of aggression. (Empirical Articles).
July 1, 2003... We compared five subgroups of aggressive youth (n = 1,723, Grades 5 through 10) on a number of adjustment correlates. The subgroups were determined by the self-reported functions (i.e., "why") of their aggressive behavior: (a) an "instrumental"...

The comity of modest manipulation, the importance of distinguishing among bad behaviors. (Commentaries).
July 1, 2003... The papers in this special issue argue that aggression is not always bad, that some forms of aggression have some positive correlates. How can we reconcile these claims and these results with a large body of previous data showing that physical...

What does it mean to say that aggressive children are competent or incompetent? (Commentaries).
July 1, 2003... In contrast to the view that the association between aggression and competence (i.e., the capacity to compete in the company of others) is negative and linear, the present papers indicate that (a) children whose level of aggression is...