CHILDREN COPYING OR LEARNING PARENTAL/ADULT AGGRESSION AS A WAY TO MANAGE THEIR OWN SOCIAL CONFL ICTS

• Authors: Danuta Borecka-Biernat
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The primary purpose of the survey was to attempt to determine whether the strategy of aggressively managing social conflicts by young people co-existed with their Parents aggression-biased strategy for managing these same conflicts. The causes for such coexistence (if it occurs) were sought, in particular the role model which can be assigned to the case under consideration. The author`s questionnaire for examining the parental strategy as perceived by a child and the author`s questionnaire for examining the strategy as to how young people cope with that strategy were applied in the survey. The survey was conducted on a group of 811 adolescents (414 girls and 397 boys) ages 13-15. The group included pupils from junior high schools in Wrocław and its environs. It was found that parents who apply a strategy based on aggression contribute to the modelling of aggressive strategies used by young people. It should be noted that sex plays an important role in the modelling. Impacts made by a parent of the opposite sex which favours the strategy of aggression developed by adolescent young people was also noted.

Keywords

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SOCIAL CONFLICT; STRATEGY FOR MANAGING AGGRESSIVE SOCIAL CONFLICTS; BEHAVIOUR MODELLING

• Publisher: University of Wrocław, Institute of Psychology and Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT - Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe
• Journal: Polish Journal of Applied Psychology
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 75-88

Contributors

author

Danuta Borecka-Biernat

• Department of Psychology, Faculty of Pedagogical and Historical Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Dawida 1, 50-527 Wroclaw