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Aggressive children's memory for attachment relevant information

This study examined a measure of children's memory for information from a story about a hypothetical mother and child, the Story Task, as a potential tool to delineate subtypes of aggressive children based on the pattern of information processing revealed through their Story Task performance. The Story Task scores of 263 second and third grade aggressive children were subjected to a cluster analytic procedure. Although four apparently distinct subgroups emerged from the cluster analysis (negative recall, low recall, defensive processing, and positive projection), validation analyses of these clusters against external variables failed to reveal significant group differences. Potential exaplanations for the failure to find meaningful subgroups of aggressive children and general limitations of the study are discussed.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TEXASAandM/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/573
Date30 September 2004
CreatorsCollie, Claire Futamase
ContributorsHeffer, Robert W., Simpson, Jeffry A., Cavell, Timothy A., Hughes, Jan N.
PublisherTexas A&M University
Source SetsTexas A and M University
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Dissertation, text
Format424394 bytes, 144806 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, text/plain, born digital

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