Direct and Indirect Aggression During Childhood and Adolescence: A Meta‐Analytic Review of Gender Differences, Intercorrelations, and Relations to Maladjustment

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Direct and Indirect Aggression During Childhood and Adolescence: A Meta‐Analytic Review of Gender Differences, Intercorrelations, and Relations to Maladjustment
Citation	Card NA, Stucky BD, Sawalani GM, Little TD. Child Dev. 2008; 79(5): 1185-1229.
Copyright	(Copyright © 2008, John Wiley and Sons)
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01184.x
PMID	unavailable
Abstract	This meta‐analytic review of 148 studies on child and adolescent direct and indirect aggression examined the magnitude of gender differences, intercorrelations between forms, and associations with maladjustment. Results confirmed prior findings of gender differences (favoring boys) in direct aggression and trivial gender differences in indirect aggression. Results also indicated a substantial intercorrelation (= .76) between these forms. Despite this high intercorrelation, the 2 forms showed unique associations with maladjustment: Direct aggression is more strongly related to externalizing problems, poor peer relations, and low prosocial behavior, and indirect aggression is related to internalizing problems and higher prosocial behavior. Moderation of these effect sizes by method of assessment, age, gender, and several additional variables were systematically investigated.