Naslov
Testing the ecological model of peer violence behavior on primary school students in Croatia

Autori
Velki, Tena

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
17th European Conference on of Developmental Psychology: program and abstracts / Motti-Stefanidi, Frosso - Braga : European Association for Developmental Psychology, 2015, 623-624

Skup
17th European Conference on of Developmental Psychology

Mjesto i datum
Braga, Portugal, 08.09.2015. - 12.09.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
peer violence; ecological model; predictors; MLM

Sažetak
Starting from the application of the ecological approach to the problem of peer violence, the goal of this study was to determine the predictors of peer violence behavior (physical, verbal and overall) among children at all levels of the ecological model. The study included 880 pairs of parents (19% fathers and 61% mothers) and students (48% boys and 52% girls) fifth to eighth graders of elementary school (M(age)=12.81) and 107 teachers. The following instruments were used: 1)the children gave basic demographic information, nominated violent peers and completed the Questionnaire on peer violence among school children, the Empathy questionnaire, the Parent behavior questionnaire, the Impulsivity scale, the Scale of perceptions of neighborhood dangers, the Scale of media impact and the School climate questionnaire(student version), 2)the parents provided information relating to the family socioeconomic status, the parental knowledge of child´s peers and the parental involvement in the child’s education, 3)the teachers gave information about the policy against peer violence in schools, the attendance of parents at the parent teacher meetings and school events and completed the School climate questionnaire(teacher version). Using multivariate multilevel analysis, at the first/individual level we explained about 47% of total variance and at the second/class level we explained about 48% of total variance. The following significant predictors were obtained: 1) infrasystem: older children, boys, greater degree of impulsivity, lower level of affective empathy, 2) microsystem: more parental punishment, more parental inductive reasoning, less parental acceptance, less parental autonomy, lack of parental supervision, lesser peer acceptance, poorer school success, negative school climate, 3)mesosystem: large differences in family income within a class, frequent arrivals of parents in school, 4) exosystem: more time spent with the media and the perception of a great neighborhood danger. Using the ecological model we explained a significant amount of variability, but it is necessary to examine additional factors, particularly family abuse and state policy (macrosystem), which could explain the residual variance in all forms of peer violence.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija, Pedagogija

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