Date of Award
8-2006
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Applied Behavior Analysis: M.S.
Department
Community Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy
College
School of Health and Human Services
First Advisor
Trae K. E. Downing
Second Advisor
Steve Hoover
Third Advisor
John Hoover
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Keywords and Subject Headings
Relational aggression, social perception, female students
Abstract
In recent years research has begun looking more closely at aggression, specifically a form of aggression that harms others through damaging their peer relationships; this has been termed relational aggression. The goal of this research was to assess relational aggression and social perception abilities of female students with learning disabilities. Female students with learning disabilities (n = 9) and female students without learning disabilities (n = 11) in grades sixth through eighth grade participated in the study. Relational aggression was measured by using a self-report instrument, used in prior research, which assesses social behavior. Social perception was assessed by using a hypothetical-situation instrument, adapted from past research, which measures the student's patterns of social information processing at the response decision step. It was hypothesized that: (1) a positive relationship would exist between social perception and relational aggression among female students with learning disabilities; (2) female students with learning disabilities will have lower social perception abilities than female students without learning disabilities; and (3) relational aggression perpetration is more likely to occur among female students without learning disabilities and less likely to occur among females students with learning disabilities. Findings revealed that all three hypotheses were not supported by this research.
Recommended Citation
Hajek, Beth M., "Relational Aggression and Social Perception among Female Students with Learning Disabilities" (2006). Culminating Projects in Community Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy. 112.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/cpcf_etds/112
