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The Longitudinal Relationship between Aggression and Negative Self-Concept in Children Using Autoregressive Cross-lagged Modeling

  • The Korean Journal of School Psychology
  • Abbr : KJSP
  • 2016, 13(1), pp.79-97
  • DOI : 10.16983/kjsp.2016.13.1.79
  • Publisher : The Korean Journal of School Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science > School / Educational Psychology

Lee ho yean 1 Hwang, Soon-taeg 1

1충북대학교

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ABSTRACT

Childhood is a critical stage that determines the development and adaptation of youth and adulthood. Given this, careful treatments of aggression and self-concept of a child are essential to childhood mental health. Much work has established a relationship between aggression and self-concept. Indeed, it A line of studies have shown that negative self-concept is a predictor of aggression, but the specific nature of the relationship remains unknown. The present study aims at clarifying the nature of relation between aggression and self-concept by examining the longitudinal reciprocal relationship between the two. The 3-year longitudinal data collected from 2,844 4th-grade elementary school students by the Korean Youth Panel study was used in this study. The analysis using the Autoregressive Cross-Lagged Model showed that a unidirectional pattern of relation between aggression and negative self-concept; aggression of child had a statistically significant effect on the negative self-concept, whereas negative self-concept had no significant impact on aggression. This result point to the critical role of aggression in mental health, suggesting the need for early intervention for moderating excessive aggression.

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