Citation

Koyama T, Smith PK. Aggressive Behav. 1991; 17(1): 1-10.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, International Society for Research on Aggression, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

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Abstract

Assertive behaviours like showing-off have an important role for a child in getting attention from other children in a class without being aggressive. This study presented the showing-off behaviour in an English nursery school, and later it was discussed in comparison with that in the German kindergartens reported by Hold-Cavell. As a result, the English children performed showing-off behaviours at only one-half the frequency of German children. No sex difference was seen in either showing-off or physical aggression in the nursery class. The frequency of showing-off did not correlate with that of physical aggression; this result is discussed in terms of Hinde's motivational postulate. Showing-off behaviour is deserving of the further studies cross-culturally and ontogenetically.