Albert D Farrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 290672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert D Farrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert D |
| FAMILY NAME | Farrell |
| SIGNATURE | FARRELL A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4841-2461 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A Latent Transition Analysis of Substance Use Patterns Among Early Adolescents in an Urban Community
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify subgroups of early adolescents based on their history of initiation and recent substance use, examine changes in their subgroup membership across two waves, and evaluate whether sociodemographic characteristics were associated with longitudinal changes in substance use patterns. Methods: Participants were 1,811 early adolescents (72% Black, 53% female) attending middle schools in neighborhoods…
Community-Based Development of Tools to Assess Firearm-Related Attitudes and Beliefs: Associations with Firearm-Related Practices, Social Influences, and Violence Exposure
The purpose of this study was to evaluate four novel measures of firearm-related attitudes and beliefs developed through participatory action research, and to determine their associations with firearm-related practices and violence exposure. Participants were a pilot sample of 550 U.S. adults (51% female; 65% White; 16% Latine; 13% Black; M age = 48.3) and a nationally representative cross-validation sample of 1,674 U.S. adults (52% female; 61% W…
Witnessing community violence and its consequences: Changes across middle school
Community violence exposure is prevalent among youth in economically marginalized communities and has been associated with concurrent adverse consequences. Few studies have applied a developmental psychopathology framework to examine developmental processes that account for relations between witnessing community violence and adjustment over time. This study used latent curve models to examine associations between changes across middle school in w…
Social-Ecological Correlates of Involvement in Firearm-Related Violence in a Nationally Representative Survey of Adults
Objectives. To examine social-ecological correlates of firearm-related violence involvement among adults. Methods. Cross-sectional surveys were collected in the United States between August 2023 and September 2023 through an AmeriSpeak Panel (n = 1681), weighted to be nationally representative. Measures included self-reported involvement in firearm-related violence victimization and perpetration and hypothesized social-ecological risk factors. Re…
Relations between perceptions of parental messages supporting fighting and nonviolence and adolescents' physical aggression: Beliefs as mediators
The purpose of this study was to examine adolescents' beliefs about fighting as mediators of longitudinal relations between perceptions of parental support for fighting and nonviolence and changes in adolescents' physical aggression. Participants were 2575 middle school students ( M age = 12.20, SD = 1.02; 52% female; 83% African American) from the southeastern US attending schools in communities with high rates of violence. Participants complete…
Profiles of Risk and Promotive Factors Associated With Aggression and Other Problem Behaviors Among Middle School Students in an Urban School System
This study’s goal was to identify patterns of risk and promotive factors across multiple social-ecological domains and their associations with adolescents’ problem behaviors (aggression, substance use, and other delinquent behaviors), victimization, and distress symptoms. Participants were a mostly African American (79%) sample of 2711 middle school students (M age = 12.7; 52% female) in urban neighborhoods who completed measures of 13 risk and p…
Substance Use Patterns among Early Adolescents in an Urban Community: Associations with Risk and Promotive Factors
Polysubstance use is related to elevated risk for adverse outcomes but remains understudied among early adolescents. This study focused on a cross-sectional ( N = 1568) primarily Black (79%) sample of eighth grade students living in urban communities (Mean age = 13.8, SD = .68) to identify subgroups based on adolescents’ reports of lifetime and past 30-day substance use. It also examined subgroup differences in individual, peer, caregiver, and co…
Relations between youths' community violence exposure and their physical aggression: The protective role of adults
The purpose of this study was to examine whether adults moderated the relations between youths' community violence exposure and subsequent physical aggression. Participants were 2575 middle school students (M age = 12.3, SD = 1.00; 52% female) in the southeastern U.S. who completed surveys collected in the fall, winter, spring, and summer. The sample was predominantly African American (72%). High adult support was associated with weaker relations…
Middle School Staff’s Perspectives on the Impact of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program on Interpersonal Relationships
The current study used thematic analysis to examine school staff perspectives on the impact of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) on school climate in terms of the quality of student-student and student-teacher relationships in two low-income, urban middle schools in the United States. Data were collected using focus groups and interviews. Participants included teachers ( n = 26), administrators ( n = 8), and Bullying Prevention Coordi…
Patterns of alcohol use among middle school students in rural communities: Associations with community violence exposure
Stress‐coping theory posits that exposure to stressors, such as community violence, increases risk for early alcohol initiation. The current study identified patterns of alcohol use in an ethnically diverse sample of early adolescents in rural communities, and examined relations between different forms of exposure to community violence and severity of adolescents' alcohol use patterns. Participants were 5011 middle school students (46.4% non‐Hisp…
Latent classes of aggression and peer victimization: Measurement invariance and differential item functioning across sex, race-ethnicity, cohort, and study site
Peer victimization is common and linked to maladjustment. Prior research has typically identified four peer victimization subgroups: aggressors, victims, aggressive-victims, and uninvolved. However, findings related to sex and racial-ethnic differences in subgroup membership have been mixed. Using data collected in September of 2002 and 2003, this study conducted confirmatory latent class analysis of a racially-ethnically diverse sample of 5415 s…
Early Adolescents’ Social Goals in Peer Conflict Situations: A Mixed Methods Study
Identification of goals is a key social-cognitive process that guides whether adolescents engage in aggressive or nonviolent behavior during social conflicts. This study investigated early adolescents' goals in response to hypothetical social conflict situations involving close friends and peers. Participants ( n = 160; M age = 12.7, 53% female) were 7th graders from two urban and one rural middle school. On average, participants identified 2.5 g…
Patterns of community violence exposure among urban adolescents and their associations with adjustment
Community violence exposure is prevalent among urban and marginalized adolescents. Although there is strong evidence that community violence exposure is associated with negative consequences, prior studies and theories suggest that these associations may differ as a function of specific characteristics of exposure. This study identified patterns of community violence exposure that differed in form (witnessing vs. victimization), familiarity with …
The influence of exposure to violence on adolescents’ physical aggression: The protective influence of peers
INTRODUCTION: This study examined the degree to which peers can serve as a protective factor to mitigate the negative effects of exposure to violence (i.e., victimization, witnessing violence) on adolescents' physical aggression. Four specific dimensions of peer influence were examined - friends' support for nonviolence, friends' support for fighting, peer pressure for fighting, and friends' delinquent behavior. METHODS: Analyses were conducted o…
Beliefs as Mediators of Relations Between Exposure to Violence and Physical Aggression During Early Adolescence
This study examined beliefs about aggression and self-efficacy for nonviolent responses as mediators of longitudinal relations between exposure to violence and physical aggression. Participants were a predominantly African American (79%) sample of 2,705 early adolescents from three middle schools within urban neighborhoods with high rates of violence. Participants completed measures across four waves (fall, winter, spring, and summer) within a sc…
Patterns of Adolescents’ Appraisals of Responses to Problem Situations: Associations with Aggression, Victimization, and Contextual Factors
Deviant Peer Factors During Early Adolescence: Cause or Consequence of Physical Aggression
This study investigated reciprocal relations between adolescents' physical aggression and their perceptions of peers' deviant behaviors and attitudes. Analyses were conducted on four waves of data from 2,290 adolescents (ages 10–16) from three urban middle schools. Autoregression models revealed reciprocal relations between peer factors (i.e., friends' problem behavior, peer pressure for fighting, friends' support for fighting) and adolescents' r…
Patterns of Parental Messages Supporting Fighting and Nonviolence Among Urban Middle School Students
The purpose of this study was to identify subgroups of adolescents with distinct perceptions of parental messages supporting fighting and nonviolence. Latent class analysis identified four subgroups among 2,619 urban middle school students (90% African American; 52% female): messages supporting fighting (32%), messages supporting nonviolence (29%), mixed messages (23%), and no messages (16%). We found significant differences across subgroups in t…
Bidirectional Relations between Witnessing Violence, Victimization, Life Events, and Physical Aggression among Adolescents in Urban Schools
Patterns of Dating Aggression and Victimization in Relation to School Environment Factors Among Middle School Students
This study examined relations between patterns of dating aggression and victimization and school environment factors among 4,114 early adolescents attending 37 middle schools in four sites in the United States (51% Black, non-Hispanic, 21% Hispanic, and 17% White). Latent class analyses revealed a five-class solution that differentiated among youth classified as uninvolved (54%), psychologically aggressive victims (18%), aggressors (11%), victims…
Longitudinal relations between beliefs supporting aggression and externalizing outcomes: Indirect effects of anger dysregulation and callous‐unemotional traits
Aggression is prevalent in early- to mid-adolescence and is associated with physical health and psychosocial adjustment difficulties. This underscores the need to identify risk processes that lead to externalizing outcomes. This study examined the extent to which the effects of three dimensions of beliefs supporting aggression on physical aggression and externalizing behavior are mediated by anger dysregulation and callous-unemotional (CU) traits…
Social and Emotional Adjustment Across Aggressor/Victim Subgroups: Are Aggressive-Victims Distinct
Beliefs About Fighting and Their Relations to Urban Adolescents’ Frequency of Aggression and Victimization: Evaluation of the Beliefs About Fighting Scale
This study investigated the structure and concurrent validity of the Beliefs About Fighting Scale (BAFS). Participants were 2,118 students from three urban middle schools who completed measures of their beliefs, frequency of physical aggression, victimization, and nonviolent intentions. Ratings of students' frequency of physical aggression, physical victimization, and nonviolent behavior were also obtained from their teachers. The majority of the…
Patterns of Change in Adolescent Dating Victimization and Aggression During Middle School
Victimization, Aggression, and Other Problem Behaviors: Trajectories of Change Within and Across Middle School Grades
This study examined trajectories of victimization and problem behaviors within and across three grades of middle school. Participants were 2,166 adolescents from three urban middle schools in the United States who completed measures of victimization, physical and relational aggression, substance use, and delinquent behavior. Latent curve analyses modeled changes in each construct across 12 waves collected every 3 months. In each case, the best-fi…
A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of the Structure of Aggression, Drug Use, and Delinquent Behaviors and Their Interrelations Over Time in Urban and Rural Adolescents
Latent growth curve analysis was used to examine the structure and interrelations among aggression, drug use, and delinquent behavior during early adolescence. Five waves of data were collected from 667 students at three urban middle schools serving a predominantly African American population, and from a more ethnically diverse sample of 950 students at four rural middle schools. One set of models focused on changes in individual behaviors; the o…
Dimensions of Peer Influences and Their Relationship to Adolescents’ Aggression, Other Problem Behaviors and Prosocial Behavior
Environmental Influences on Fighting Versus Nonviolent Behavior in Peer Situations: A Qualitative Study with Urban African American Adolescents
This qualitative study explored environmental factors that influence adolescents’ responses to problem situations involving peers. Interviews were conducted with 106 middle school students (97% African American) from an urban school system. Participants were asked to describe factors that would make it easier and those that would make it more difficult for adolescents to make specific responses to problem situations. Two types of responses were p…
Impact of witnessing violence on growth curves for problem behaviors among early adolescents in urban and rural settings
Two studies used latent growth‐curve analysis to examine the relation between witnessing violence and changes in problem behaviors (drug use, aggression, and delinquency) and attitudes during early adolescence. In Study 1, six waves of data covering 6th to 8th grades were collected from 731 students in urban schools serving mostly African‐American students. Strong cross‐sectional relations were found between witnessing violence and other variable…
Problematic Situations in the Lives of Urban African American Middle School Students: A Qualitative Study
Qualitative methods were used to identify problem situations encountered by adolescents in urban middle schools serving a predominantly African American student population. Interviews focusing on identifying problem situations and the context in which they occur were conducted with 60 adolescents including students and peer mediators at middle schools and adolescents at community centers. Interviews were also conducted with 50 adults, including p…
Predicting Jealous Responses: The Influence of Adult Attachment and Depression on Threat Appraisal
This study tested a model of romantic jealousy based on cognitive motivational theory (White & Mullen, 1989) and formulations from adult attachment studies (Hazan & Shaver, 1987). A causal model was tested in which attachment, depression and situational threat were hypothesized to predict jealous responses through their effects on appraisal of threat. Imagery scenes, depicting varying levels of threat by a romantic relationship rival, were presen…
Individual and Contextual Factors Associated with Patterns of Aggression and Peer Victimization During Middle School
Exposure to Violence in Early Adolescence: The Impact of Self-Restraint, Witnessing Violence, and Victimization on Aggression and Drug Use
This study examined the relation between self-restraint and exposure to violence (witnessing violence and victimization) in predicting increased frequencies of aggression and drug use among an ethnically diverse sample of sixth graders attending four rural middle schools ( n = 913). Lower levels of self-restraint predicted higher rates of witnessing violence and victimization, but neither witnessing violence nor victimization was related to chang…
Risk factors for drug use in urban adolescents: Identification and cross‐validation
Examined the relationship between 26 dichotomous risk factors and drug use in derivation (N = 1,352) and cross-validation (N = 1,309) samples of seventh graders in the public school system of a large southeastern city. The majority of students was African American, many came from low-income, single parent families. A total of 20 risk factors representing a variety of variables was significantly related to at least one category of drug use in both…
Beliefs About Fighting and Their Relations to Urban Adolescents’ Frequency of Aggression and Victimization: Evaluation of the Beliefs About Fighting Scale
This study investigated the structure and concurrent validity of the Beliefs About Fighting Scale (BAFS). Participants were 2,118 students from three urban middle schools who completed measures of their beliefs, frequency of physical aggression, victimization, and nonviolent intentions. Ratings of students' frequency of physical aggression, physical victimization, and nonviolent behavior were also obtained from their teachers. The majority of the…
Longitudinal Relationships Between Individual and Class Norms Supporting Dating Violence and Perpetration of Dating Violence
The Relation Between Peer Victimization and Adolescents' Well‐Being: The Moderating Role of Ethnicity Within Context
This study examined the moderating effects of individual ethnicity and school ethnic composition on the relation between peer victimization and adolescents' well‐being. Participants were 4,593 sixth grade students attending 36 schools categorized as ethnically diverse or predominantly African American, European American, or Latino American. Multilevel models revealed relations between participants' ethnicity and their reported frequency of overt …
Connecting Youth Violence Prevention, Positive Youth Development, and Community Mobilization
Several disconnects serve to weaken the use of evidence based programming in community settings. Communities face the need to address the challenges of multiple risk behaviors faced by adolescents in their communities, but must also work to support successful transitions to adulthood and the broader positive development of their youth. The stronger integration of positive youth development and prevention of youth risk at the community level may o…
The Promotive and Protective Effects of Family Factors in the Context of Peer and Community Risks for Aggression
Beliefs as Mediators of Relations Between Exposure to Violence and Physical Aggression During Early Adolescence
This study examined beliefs about aggression and self-efficacy for nonviolent responses as mediators of longitudinal relations between exposure to violence and physical aggression. Participants were a predominantly African American (79%) sample of 2,705 early adolescents from three middle schools within urban neighborhoods with high rates of violence. Participants completed measures across four waves (fall, winter, spring, and summer) within a sc…
Patterns of Change in Adolescent Dating Victimization and Aggression During Middle School
The effectiveness of a school-based curriculum for reducing violence among urban sixth-grade students
OBJECTIVES: In this study, we examine the impact of a school-based curriculum designed to reduce violence among urban sixth-grade students. METHODS: This study used a staggered implementation design in which sixth-graders in six middle schools were taught an 18-session violence-prevention curriculum during either the fall or spring semester. Outcome measures were completed at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year. RESULTS: For boys, p…
Early Adolescents’ Social Goals in Peer Conflict Situations: A Mixed Methods Study
Identification of goals is a key social-cognitive process that guides whether adolescents engage in aggressive or nonviolent behavior during social conflicts. This study investigated early adolescents' goals in response to hypothetical social conflict situations involving close friends and peers. Participants ( n = 160; M age = 12.7, 53% female) were 7th graders from two urban and one rural middle school. On average, participants identified 2.5 g…
Patterns of community violence exposure among urban adolescents and their associations with adjustment
Community violence exposure is prevalent among urban and marginalized adolescents. Although there is strong evidence that community violence exposure is associated with negative consequences, prior studies and theories suggest that these associations may differ as a function of specific characteristics of exposure. This study identified patterns of community violence exposure that differed in form (witnessing vs. victimization), familiarity with …
Patterns of Parental Messages Supporting Fighting and Nonviolence Among Urban Middle School Students
The purpose of this study was to identify subgroups of adolescents with distinct perceptions of parental messages supporting fighting and nonviolence. Latent class analysis identified four subgroups among 2,619 urban middle school students (90% African American; 52% female): messages supporting fighting (32%), messages supporting nonviolence (29%), mixed messages (23%), and no messages (16%). We found significant differences across subgroups in t…
Bidirectional Relations between Witnessing Violence, Victimization, Life Events, and Physical Aggression among Adolescents in Urban Schools
Measurement of Dating Aggression During Middle School: Structure, Measurement Invariance, and Distinction From General Aggression
Two studies examined the factor structure of a modified version of the Safe Dates dating aggression scale and evaluated whether dating aggression is distinct from general aggression during early adolescence. Analyses were conducted on a derivation sample of 3,894 adolescents from 37 schools (Study 1) and an independent cross-validation sample of 938 middle school youth (Study 2). Categorical confirmatory factor analyses supported a two-factor mod…
Witnessing community violence and its consequences: Changes across middle school
Community violence exposure is prevalent among youth in economically marginalized communities and has been associated with concurrent adverse consequences. Few studies have applied a developmental psychopathology framework to examine developmental processes that account for relations between witnessing community violence and adjustment over time. This study used latent curve models to examine associations between changes across middle school in w…
Relations between youths' community violence exposure and their physical aggression: The protective role of adults
The purpose of this study was to examine whether adults moderated the relations between youths' community violence exposure and subsequent physical aggression. Participants were 2575 middle school students (M age = 12.3, SD = 1.00; 52% female) in the southeastern U.S. who completed surveys collected in the fall, winter, spring, and summer. The sample was predominantly African American (72%). High adult support was associated with weaker relations…
Patterns of Dating Aggression and Victimization in Relation to School Environment Factors Among Middle School Students
This study examined relations between patterns of dating aggression and victimization and school environment factors among 4,114 early adolescents attending 37 middle schools in four sites in the United States (51% Black, non-Hispanic, 21% Hispanic, and 17% White). Latent class analyses revealed a five-class solution that differentiated among youth classified as uninvolved (54%), psychologically aggressive victims (18%), aggressors (11%), victims…
The development of a microcomputer-based mental health information system: A potential tool for bridging the scientist–practitioner gap
The development of a microcomputer-based mental health information system: A potential tool for bridging the scientist-practitioner gap
Risk factors for drug use in urban adolescents: Identification and cross‐validation
Examined the relationship between 26 dichotomous risk factors and drug use in derivation (N = 1,352) and cross-validation (N = 1,309) samples of seventh graders in the public school system of a large southeastern city. The majority of students was African American, many came from low-income, single parent families. A total of 20 risk factors representing a variety of variables was significantly related to at least one category of drug use in both…
Predicting Jealous Responses: The Influence of Adult Attachment and Depression on Threat Appraisal
This study tested a model of romantic jealousy based on cognitive motivational theory (White & Mullen, 1989) and formulations from adult attachment studies (Hazan & Shaver, 1987). A causal model was tested in which attachment, depression and situational threat were hypothesized to predict jealous responses through their effects on appraisal of threat. Imagery scenes, depicting varying levels of threat by a romantic relationship rival, were presen…
Impact of exposure to community violence on violent behavior and emotional distress among urban adolescents
Examined the effects of witnessing community violence on emotional distress and frequency of violent behavior across three time points within a predominantly African American sample of 436 sixth-grade students in an urban public school system. A high percentage of students, particularly boys, reported witnessing a variety of violent incidents (e.g., shootings, beatings, and stabbings). Comparison of structural equation models revealed a number of…
The effectiveness of a school-based curriculum for reducing violence among urban sixth-grade students
OBJECTIVES: In this study, we examine the impact of a school-based curriculum designed to reduce violence among urban sixth-grade students. METHODS: This study used a staggered implementation design in which sixth-graders in six middle schools were taught an 18-session violence-prevention curriculum during either the fall or spring semester. Outcome measures were completed at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year. RESULTS: For boys, p…
The Structure of Self-Reported Aggression, Drug Use, and Delinquent Behaviors During Early Adolescence
Examined the structure of self-report scales designed to assess the frequency of adolescent problem behaviors. Urban (n = 988) and rural (n = 1,895) middle school students completed the Problem Behavior Frequency Scale (Farrell, Danish, & Howard, 1992a) and measures of other relevant constructs. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a model that included specific factors related to aggression, drug use, and delinquent behaviors, and a higher ord…
Promoting Nonviolence in Early Adolescence: Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways
"This volume describes the steps taken by Responding In Peaceful and Positive Ways (RIPP), a program developed to promote "nonviolence" among students in middle schools.". "RIPP provides young people with new ways to respond to conflict. Using the acronym RAID, the students are taught four types of nonviolent options: Resolve, Avoid, Ignore, and Diffuse. By teaching that they have other choices in any conflict, the idea that "fighting" is a neces…
Impact of the Ripp Violence Prevention Program on Rural Middle School Students
Impact of witnessing violence on growth curves for problem behaviors among early adolescents in urban and rural settings
Two studies used latent growth‐curve analysis to examine the relation between witnessing violence and changes in problem behaviors (drug use, aggression, and delinquency) and attitudes during early adolescence. In Study 1, six waves of data covering 6th to 8th grades were collected from 731 students in urban schools serving mostly African‐American students. Strong cross‐sectional relations were found between witnessing violence and other variable…
A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of the Structure of Aggression, Drug Use, and Delinquent Behaviors and Their Interrelations Over Time in Urban and Rural Adolescents
Latent growth curve analysis was used to examine the structure and interrelations among aggression, drug use, and delinquent behavior during early adolescence. Five waves of data were collected from 667 students at three urban middle schools serving a predominantly African American population, and from a more ethnically diverse sample of 950 students at four rural middle schools. One set of models focused on changes in individual behaviors; the o…
Problematic Situations in the Lives of Urban African American Middle School Students: A Qualitative Study
Qualitative methods were used to identify problem situations encountered by adolescents in urban middle schools serving a predominantly African American student population. Interviews focusing on identifying problem situations and the context in which they occur were conducted with 60 adolescents including students and peer mediators at middle schools and adolescents at community centers. Interviews were also conducted with 50 adults, including p…
Exposure to Violence in Early Adolescence: The Impact of Self-Restraint, Witnessing Violence, and Victimization on Aggression and Drug Use
This study examined the relation between self-restraint and exposure to violence (witnessing violence and victimization) in predicting increased frequencies of aggression and drug use among an ethnically diverse sample of sixth graders attending four rural middle schools ( n = 913). Lower levels of self-restraint predicted higher rates of witnessing violence and victimization, but neither witnessing violence nor victimization was related to chang…
Problematic Situations Associated with Dating Experiences and Relationships Among Urban African American Adolescents: A Qualitative Study
Environmental Influences on Fighting Versus Nonviolent Behavior in Peer Situations: A Qualitative Study with Urban African American Adolescents
This qualitative study explored environmental factors that influence adolescents’ responses to problem situations involving peers. Interviews were conducted with 106 middle school students (97% African American) from an urban school system. Participants were asked to describe factors that would make it easier and those that would make it more difficult for adolescents to make specific responses to problem situations. Two types of responses were p…
Connecting Youth Violence Prevention, Positive Youth Development, and Community Mobilization
Several disconnects serve to weaken the use of evidence based programming in community settings. Communities face the need to address the challenges of multiple risk behaviors faced by adolescents in their communities, but must also work to support successful transitions to adulthood and the broader positive development of their youth. The stronger integration of positive youth development and prevention of youth risk at the community level may o…
The Relation Between Peer Victimization and Adolescents' Well‐Being: The Moderating Role of Ethnicity Within Context
This study examined the moderating effects of individual ethnicity and school ethnic composition on the relation between peer victimization and adolescents' well‐being. Participants were 4,593 sixth grade students attending 36 schools categorized as ethnically diverse or predominantly African American, European American, or Latino American. Multilevel models revealed relations between participants' ethnicity and their reported frequency of overt …
Individual and Contextual Factors Associated with Patterns of Aggression and Peer Victimization During Middle School
Participants’ Perceptions of a Violence Prevention Curriculum for Middle School Students: Was It Relevant and Useful
Measurement of Dating Aggression During Middle School: Structure, Measurement Invariance, and Distinction From General Aggression
Two studies examined the factor structure of a modified version of the Safe Dates dating aggression scale and evaluated whether dating aggression is distinct from general aggression during early adolescence. Analyses were conducted on a derivation sample of 3,894 adolescents from 37 schools (Study 1) and an independent cross-validation sample of 938 middle school youth (Study 2). Categorical confirmatory factor analyses supported a two-factor mod…
Longitudinal Relationships Between Individual and Class Norms Supporting Dating Violence and Perpetration of Dating Violence
The Promotive and Protective Effects of Family Factors in the Context of Peer and Community Risks for Aggression
Victimization, Aggression, and Other Problem Behaviors: Trajectories of Change Within and Across Middle School Grades
This study examined trajectories of victimization and problem behaviors within and across three grades of middle school. Participants were 2,166 adolescents from three urban middle schools in the United States who completed measures of victimization, physical and relational aggression, substance use, and delinquent behavior. Latent curve analyses modeled changes in each construct across 12 waves collected every 3 months. In each case, the best-fi…
Dimensions of Peer Influences and Their Relationship to Adolescents’ Aggression, Other Problem Behaviors and Prosocial Behavior
Beliefs About Fighting and Their Relations to Urban Adolescents’ Frequency of Aggression and Victimization: Evaluation of the Beliefs About Fighting Scale
This study investigated the structure and concurrent validity of the Beliefs About Fighting Scale (BAFS). Participants were 2,118 students from three urban middle schools who completed measures of their beliefs, frequency of physical aggression, victimization, and nonviolent intentions. Ratings of students' frequency of physical aggression, physical victimization, and nonviolent behavior were also obtained from their teachers. The majority of the…
Psychology (45 works) · Developmental psychology (35 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (31 works) · Medicine (30 works) · Aggression (28 works) · Poison control (25 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (23 works) · Clinical Psychology (22 works) · Human Factors and Ergonomics (22 works) · Social Psychology (21 works)