@article{ref1,
title=""Do you trust him?" Children's trust beliefs and developmental trajectories of aggressive behavior in an ethnically diverse sample",
journal="Journal of abnormal child psychology",
year="2013",
author="Malti, Tina and Averdijk, Margit and Ribeaud, Denis and Rotenberg, Ken J. and Eisner, Manuel P.",
volume="41",
number="3",
pages="445-456",
abstract="This study investigated the role of trust beliefs (i.e., trustworthiness, trustfulness) on aggression trajectories in a four-wave longitudinal study using an ethnically diverse sample of 8- to 11-year-old children (N = 1,028), as well as the risk profiles of low trust beliefs and low socioeconomic status on aggression trajectories. At Time 1 to Time 4, teachers provided ratings of overt aggressive behavior. At Time 1, children's trust beliefs were assessed by a sociometric peer nomination instrument and derived using social relations analysis. Latent growth curve analysis revealed five trajectories of aggressive behavior: high-stable, medium-stable, low-stable, increasing, and decreasing. As hypothesized, children in the high-stable trajectory were perceived as less trustworthy than children in the low-stable, medium-stable, and increasing trajectories. Children in the high-stable trajectory were less trustful than children in the low-stable trajectory and had a significantly higher risk profile (i.e., low trust beliefs and low SES) compared to children in the low-stable trajectory. Our findings indicate that the developmental course of aggression during middle childhood is predicted by children's trustworthiness and trustfulness. A risk profile of low trust and low socioeconomic status contributes to high-stable aggression trajectories.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-0627",
doi="10.1007/s10802-012-9687-7",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-012-9687-7"
}