Social Information processing, moral reasoning, and emotion attributions: Relations with adolescents' reactive and proactive aggression

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1739-1755

  Arsenio, William F ^a   Adams, Erin ^b   Gold, Jason ^c  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hall Brooke Behavioral Health Services   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; NEGRO; PERCEPTION; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGGRESSION; APTITUDE; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CONDUCT DISORDER; CRIME VICTIMS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INTENTION; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORAL DEVELOPMENT; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 72449140539     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01365.x     Document Type: Article

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