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Merrilees, Christine E.; Taylor, Laura K.; Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Shirlow, Peter; Cummings, E. Mark; Cairns, Ed – Child Development, 2014
The protective role of strength of group identity was examined for youth in a context of protracted political conflict. Participants included 814 adolescents (M[subscript age] = 13.61, SD = 1.99 at Time 1) participating in a longitudinal study in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Utilizing hierarchical linear modeling, the results show that the effect of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Foreign Countries, Group Membership
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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