早期青少年时期同伴反应元认知与身体攻击和关系攻击之间的纵向关联

Peer contexts can support or deter aggressive behavior perpetration in early adolescence. Relatively little is known, though, about how an individual’s expectations of their friends’ reactions to aggressive and non-aggressive behaviors inform physical and relational aggression perpetration. Participants (N = 527) were middle schoolers recruited from three schools in the Southeastern United States as part of a larger violence prevention program. Students completed self-report measures of meta-perceptions and recent relational and physical aggression perpetration at four timepoints across two ac