The results suggest that mothers and fathers show higher agreement for girls» relational
aggression than for boys» and that the presence of gender differences depends on the method of measurement.
Not exact matches
This is especially the case
for girls, who tend to feel more damaged by social
aggression than boys do.
The effects of growing up without both parents on
aggression, rule breaking, and delinquency are also larger
for boys than for girls.
First, with regard to gender, although the
boys scored significantly higher on direct
aggression, there was only a weak non-significant tendency
for the girls to score higher
than the
boys on indirect
aggression.
Although there is clear evidence
for these two factors, Card et al. found the average correlation between direct and indirect
aggression to be very high — and higher among
boys than girls.