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Paul Boxer; L. Rowell Huesmann; Eric F. Dubow; Simha F. Landau; Shira Dvir Gvirsman; Khalil Shikaki; Jeremy Ginges – Child Development, 2013
Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological model proposes that events in higher order social ecosystems should influence human development through their impact on events in lower order social ecosystems. This proposition was tested with respect to ecological violence and the development of children's aggression via analyses of 3 waves of data (1 wave…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Conflict, Observation
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James Garbarino; Kathleen Kostelny – Child Development, 1996
Interviewed 150 Palestinian mothers and their children living amidst the Intifada uprising in what was then the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Found that the number of risks present in a child's life was significantly correlated with the number of behavioral problems the child exhibited. Under conditions of high accumulated risk, boys evidenced more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems