Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Abstract
The current study investigated the change in relationship between an aggressor's attachment style (avoidant or preoccupied) and a series of characteristics in their victims' over a school year. Once a semester, participants rated themselves and their classmates on 16 personality characteristics and their aggression levels against other students. Only avoidant girls significantly refined their targets over the course of a school year. They increased their aggression towards girls with low appearance self-efficacy, a high avoidance attachment, high depression, high cross-gender typed behavior, high internalizing behavior, and low global self-worth.
Extent
vii, 69 p. : ill.
Recommended Citation
Miller, Ashley M., "Attachment styles and aggressor-victim relationships in preadolescence" (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 455.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/455
Identifier
FADT3358753
Comments
by Ashley M. Miller.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012.|Includes bibliography.|Mode of access: World Wide Web.|System requirements: Adobe Reader.|by Ashley M. Miller.