The Relationships Between The Development Of Friendship And Aggressive Behaviors Among Secondary School Student

After teenagers step into the period of adolescence, those friendship relations become a vital way to socialization. Also, researchers have long been focused on the causes, development and results of aggressive behaviors between peer relations. The present study aims at exploring the relationships between the development of adolescent friendship and aggressive behaviors during the early period of adolescence.With the method of sociometric nomination and questionnaire, we get 1484 mutual dyads and 130 first-mutual friends, as well as the scores of sociometric nomination, number of friendship nomination, friendship quality, and social behavior nomination of mutual friends for 586 students from two middle schools in Wuhan.The result shows: Firstly, the significant gender differences are found on all of the friendship relation variables of middle school children. The numbers of friendship and the scores of peer acceptance in the mix-gender friend group are higher than those of other gender groups, indicating that the children who had more opposite-sex friends were those popular children. Girl-girl friendship dyads hqye more help accompany, intimate communication, trust and respect, but have less conflict and betray than boy-boy friendship dyads. No significant grade difference of dyads' friendship quality is found.Secondly, both relational aggressive behavior and overt aggressive behavior of middle school students have gender differences. Mix-sex and girl-girl friendship dyads get more scores of relational aggressive behavior than those of boy-boy friendship dyads. In addition, the scores of overt aggressive behavior in boy-boy friendship dyads is the highest.Thirdly, the social status of friendship dyads is consisted with their numbers of mutual friendship. According to the scores of numbers of mutual friendship, the high-acceptted dyads score higher than normao-acceptted dyads, and the nomal-acceptted dyads score higher than low-acceptted dyads.Fourthly, compared with two types of different aggressive behaviors among different social status, we find that the relational aggressive behaviors of low-acceptted friendship dyads are more than those of the other two social status dyads. As for the overt aggressive behavior, high-acceptted dyads score higher than normal-acceptted dyads, and the latter scores higher than low-acceptted dyads.Fifthly, regression analysis indicates the peer group support gender-normative aggression while reject gender-nonnormative aggression in adolescents' friendship.Lastly, the popularity and trust respect of friendship quality can versus predict two aggressive behaviors. Furthermore, the predictive ability of the former is higher than that of the latter. Among all of friendship quality factors, intimate communication and affirming value can positively predict relational aggressive behavior and overt aggressive behavior separately.