Early Adolescents’ Social Goals in Peer Conflict Situations: A Mixed Methods Study

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• Alternative Title:
  J Early Adolesc
• Personal Author:
  Dunn, Courtney B. ; Pittman, Sarah K. ; Mehari, Krista R. ; Titchner, Denicia ; Farrell, Albert D.
• Description:
  Identification of goals is a key social-cognitive process that guides whether adolescents engage in aggressive or nonviolent behavior during social conflicts. This study investigated early adolescents' goals in response to hypothetical social conflict situations involving close friends and peers. Participants (| = 160; | = 12.7, 53% female) were 7th graders from two urban and one rural middle school. On average, participants identified 2.5 goals for each situation. Qualitative analysis using a grounded theory approach identified nine themes representing the goals generated by participants: | and |. Quantitative analysis indicated that female participants identified more goals than male participants, but there were few differences in their types of goals. There were few differences across school sites. The findings highlight the variety of social goals specific to the developmental period of early adolescence.
• Subjects:
  Article Early Adolescence Goals Qualitative Analysis Social Cognition Social Conflict
• Source:
  J Early Adolesc. 42(5):647-670
• Pubmed ID:
  37736490
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10512817
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U49 CE000730/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  42
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2582922af054c2fd7ed247f2a124177a9cfccaab80734ebc6905ac84816552ff
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/133275/cdc_133275_DS1.pdf
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