Citation

Ostrov JM, Godleski SA. Psychol. Rev. 2010; 117(1): 233-242.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260-4110, USA. jostrov@buffalo.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/a0018070

PMID

20063970

Abstract

An integrative model is proposed for understanding the development of physical and relational aggression in early and middle childhood. The central goal was to posit a new theoretical framework that expands on existing social-cognitive and gender schema models (i.e., Social Information-Processing Model of Children's Adjustment [N. R. Crick & K. A. Dodge, 1994] and the Schematic-Processing Model of Sex Role Stereotyping [C. L. Martin & C. F. Halverson, 1981]). The proposed model suggests several individual- and group-level effects and the available evidence for each of these hypotheses is discussed. The ways in which the proposed model may guide future research in the field are presented.

Language: en