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  • Child Psychology
  • Forensic Psychology

Background:

  • Aggressive behavior in children is a complex issue with multiple contributing factors.
  • The immediate decision-making process preceding an aggressive act is a critical control mechanism.
  • Understanding social cognitions, including social information processing and stored knowledge, is key to explaining aggressive behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the proximal control mechanism of children's aggressive acts.
  • To examine the role of social information processing and stored knowledge (internal knowledge structures) in aggressive behavior.
  • To test hypotheses regarding the relationship between hostile knowledge structures, biased social information processing, and the stability of aggressive behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal study following 585 children from kindergarten through eighth grade.
  • Assessed social information processing patterns and the nature of stored knowledge (knowledge structures).
  • Examined the mediating role of knowledge structures and social information processing in the development of aggressive behavior.

Main Results:

  • Children with hostile knowledge structures exhibited more biased social information processing.
  • Hostile knowledge structures were associated with chronically aggressive behavior.
  • The development of hostile knowledge structures and social information processing patterns partially mediated the link between early and later aggressive behavior.

Conclusions:

  • Hostile knowledge structures and biased social information processing are significant factors in children's aggressive behavior.
  • Internal knowledge structures play a crucial role in the mental processes underlying violent behavior in children.
  • These findings underscore the importance of including knowledge structures in theories explaining children's aggressive and violent behavior.