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Affective Predictors of School-Age Children's Aggression and Peer Relationships: Direct and Indirect Effects  

Han, Eu-Gene (Dept. of Child Studies, Myongji University)
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Journal of Families and Better Life / v.24, no.5, 2006 , pp. 1-15 More about this Journal
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This study explored the relationship between children's emotional competence, aggression and peer relationships. Participants were 164 third and 134 fourth grade children from five elementary schools in Seoul and Chenan. Emotional competence, aggression and peer relationships were assessed by means of a questionnaire, interview and observation. Results indicated that emotional understanding of self and others, sex, age, emotional expression and passive regulation strategies were significant variables in predicting children's aggression. Emotional understanding was the most predictable variable in relation to peer relationships. Emotional understanding, emotional regulation and emotional expression made independent contributions to aggression and peer relationships. Mediation analyses revealed that the significant connections between children's emotional competence and negative peer relationships were mostly mediated by aggression.
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emotional understanding; emotional regulation; emotional expression; aggression; peer relationship;
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