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• Alternative Title:
  Aggress Behav
• Personal Author:
  Coleman, Jasmine N. ; Smith, Phillip N. ; Mehari, Krista R. ; Farrell, Albert D.

  Coleman, Jasmine N. ; Smith, Phillip N. ; Mehari, Krista R. ; Farrell, Albert D. Less -
• Description:
  The purpose of this study was to examine adolescents' beliefs about fighting as mediators of longitudinal relations between perceptions of parental support for fighting and nonviolence and changes in adolescents' physical aggression. Participants were 2,575 middle school students (| = 12.20, | = 1.02; 52% female; 83% African American) from the southeastern U.S. attending schools in communities with high rates of violence. Participants completed four waves of assessments every 3 months (i.e., fall, winter, spring, and summer). Each belief subscale mediated relations between perceptions of parental support for fighting and nonviolence and changes in aggression. Parental support for nonviolence was negatively associated with beliefs supporting reactive aggression and positively associated with beliefs against fighting. Parental support for retaliation was positively associated with beliefs supporting reactive and proactive aggression, and negatively associated with beliefs against fighting. Parental support for fighting as sometimes necessary was positively associated with beliefs supporting reactive aggression and beliefs that fighting is sometimes necessary. Beliefs supporting reactive and proactive aggression and beliefs that fighting is sometimes necessary were positively associated with aggression, whereas beliefs against fighting was negatively associated with aggression. Parents' support for fighting and for nonviolence may directly and indirectly reduce adolescents' physical aggression by influencing beliefs about the appropriateness of using aggression for self-defense and to attain a goal. This highlights the importance of jointly investigating multiple types of parental messages and types of beliefs about fighting.
• Subjects:
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  Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Aggression Child Female Humans Longitudinal Studies Male Parent-Child Relations Parenting Parents Violence
• Keywords:
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  Adolescents Beliefs About Aggression Parental Messages
• Source:
  Aggress Behav. 50(2)
• Pubmed ID:
  38707774
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11064809
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 CE003298/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01 HD089994/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 CE001956/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/

  R01 CE003298/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01 HD089994/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 CE001956/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ Less -
• Volume:
  50
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
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