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AGGRESSIVE AND NON‐AGGRESSIVE FIGHTING IN TWELVE‐TO‐THIRTEEN YEAR OLD PRE‐ADOLESCENT BOYS
Author(s) -
Neill S. R. St. J.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1976.tb00394.x
Subject(s) - aggression , psychology , distress , developmental psychology , poison control , injury prevention , suicide prevention , human factors and ergonomics , clinical psychology , medical emergency , medicine
Summary Ethological observations weir made of 34 boys in a secondary school playground, covering all aspects of behaviour, including fighting. Factor analyses were performed on individual samples of behaviour; the two main types of righting were vigorous fighting, usually playful but often causing distress to the victim and playful fighting of low intensity. Fighting of the first type is rare in young boys, and it is suggested that this intermingling of rough play and aggression in older boys exposes aggression to social influences which in younger boys are confined to rough play.