Social aggression among girls / Marion K. Underwood ; foreword by Eleanor Maccoby.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Guilford series on social and emotional development.
Main Author: Underwood, Marion K.
Language:English
Published: New York : Guilford Press, [2003], ©2003.
Series:Guilford series on social and emotional development.
Subjects:
Aggressiveness in children.
Aggressiveness in adolescence.
Girls > Psychology.
Physical Description:xix, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Setting the stage
  • Girl's anger and aggression : the bind between being feeling angry and being nice
  • Childhood aggression : sticks and stones and social exclusion
  • Gender and peer relations : separate worlds?
  • Development
  • Girls' anger in infancy : early lessons that anger is unwelcome
  • Girls' anger and aggression in preschool : "if you don't do what I say, I won't be your friend"
  • Middle childhood : gossip, gossip, evil thing?
  • Adolescence : girl talk, moral negotiation, and strategic interactions to inflict social harm
  • Clinical implications
  • Developmental and psychosocial consequences of girls' aggression
  • Prevention and intervention : harnessing the power of sisterhood
  • New models of social aggression : for its own sake.