ERIC Number: EJ687364
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-May
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0961-205X
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Antisocial and Prosocial Teasing among Children: Perceptions and Individual Differences
Barnett, Mark A.; Burns, Susan R.; Sanborn, Fred W.; Bartel, Jeffrey S.; Wilds, Stacey J.
Social Development, v13 n2 p292-310 May 2004
Two studies examined fifth- and sixth-grade students' perceptions of antisocial and prosocial teasing among peers and potential correlates of individual differences in their tendencies to engage in both forms of teasing. The children were rated as showing a greater tendency to be prosocial teasers than antisocial teasers by both teachers and peers. In addition, the children indicated that they generally experienced and observed prosocial teasing more frequently than antisocial teasing at home and in school. Although boys were perceived to tease in a hostile, antisocial manner to a greater extent than were girls, the evidence for a gender difference in affiliative, prosocial teasing among these children was relatively weak. Additionally, systematic relations were found among ratings of the children's tendencies to engage in antisocial and prosocial teasing with peers, teachers' ratings of their general level of antisocial and prosocial behavior with peers, ratings of the frequency with which they experienced antisocial and prosocial teasing at home and at school, and their attitudes toward antisocial and prosocial teasing.
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Student Attitudes, Peer Relationship, Gender Differences, Grade 5, Grade 6, Antisocial Behavior, Rating Scales, Student Behavior, Attitude Measures, Bullying, Teacher Attitudes, Family Environment
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 5; Grade 6
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Language: English
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