It is depressingly easy to summarize the major findings in this paper. Ten and eleven year old children who are seen as being the most aggressive are much more likely than other children to describe themselves in the following terms:
- having bad relations with their families
- having negative relations with "friends"
- being rejected by their parents
- being subject to unfair teachers
- being subject to having mean things said to them by other children
- being bullied by other children.
With few exceptions, these relationships are true for both boys and girls. And the relationships tend to hold whether we identify the "aggressive" children from their own accounts of their behaviour, or from the adult in their household who knows them best (the PMK), or from their teachers. Furthermore, it is not just the child's own self-report that provides this rather depressing picture. Aggressive children, as described by the PMK and the teacher, do not look much different.
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