Adolescents' Use of Resource Control Strategies and Bullying Behaviors

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly N. Clark ◽  
Nicole B. Dorio ◽  
Michelle K. Demaray ◽  
Christine K. Malecki
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategies ◽  
Resource Control ◽  
Bullying Behaviors

Social dominance and prosocial and coercive strategies of resource control in preschoolers

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia H. Hawley
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Competence ◽  
Social Dominance ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Block Design ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Resource Control ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Control Behaviour

This study was designed to investigate the predictors of social dominance, the strategies children use to control resources (prosocial and coercive), and the associations between these strategies and measures of personality, social skills, and peer regard. A total of 30 preschoolers (ages 3–6) were rated by their teachers on social dominance. Based on these ratings, dominant children were paired with multiple subordinate children (i.e., block design; Kenny, 1990) and observed in a play situation designed to elicit resource control behaviour. As hypothesised, age and the surgency facet of extraversion predicted social dominance (but openness to experience did not). Furthermore, also as expected, both prosocial behaviour and coercive behaviour were related to resource control in the play situation. Last, both resource control strategies were associated with parent-rated social competence, but only coercive control was associated with positive peer regard (i.e., Likeability). Factors of personality (e.g. agreeableness, hostility) were not associated with either of the strategies. The utility of an evolutionary perspective to resource control and social competence is discussed.

scholarly journals Hydro-hegemony – a framework for analysis of trans-boundary water conflicts

Water Policy ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 435-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Zeitoun ◽  
Jeroen Warner
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategies ◽  
Resource Control ◽  
Water Conflict ◽  
Water Conflicts ◽  
Euphrates River ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Conventional Analysis ◽  
Power Asymmetries ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Political Question

The increasing structural and physical scarcity of water across the globe calls for a deeper understanding of trans-boundary water conflicts. Conventional analysis tends to downplay the role that power asymmetry plays in creating and maintaining situations of water conflict that fall short of the violent form of war and to treat as unproblematic situations of cooperation occurring in an asymmetrical context. The conceptual Framework of Hydro-Hegemony presented herein attempts to give these two features – power and varying intensities of conflict – their respective place in the perennial and deeply political question: who gets how much water, how and why? Hydro-hegemony is hegemony at the river basin level, achieved through water resource control strategies such as resource capture, integration and containment. The strategies are executed through an array of tactics (e.g. coercion-pressure, treaties, knowledge construction, etc.) that are enabled by the exploitation of existing power asymmetries within a weak international institutional context. Political processes outside the water sector configure basin-wide hydro-political relations in a form ranging from the benefits derived from cooperation under hegemonic leadership to the inequitable aspects of domination. The outcome of the competition in terms of control over the resource is determined through the form of hydro-hegemony established, typically in favour of the most powerful actor. The Framework of Hydro-hegemony is applied to the Nile, Jordan and Tigris and Euphrates river basins, where it is found that current hydro-hegemonic configurations tend towards the dominative form.. There is evidence in each case of power asymmetries influencing an inequitable outcome – at the expense of lingering, low-intensity conflicts. It is proposed that the framework provides an analytical paradigm useful for examining the options of such powerful or hegemonized riparians and how they might move away from domination towards cooperation.

Machiavellianism in Children in Dutch Elementary Schools and Sports Clubs: Prevalence and Stability According to Context, Sport Type, and Gender

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 444-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Baar ◽  
Theo Wubbels
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
School Context ◽  
Resource Control ◽  
Peer Aggression ◽  
School Students ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
Aggressive Children

The majority of research on children’s peer aggression has focused exclusively on the school context. Very few studies have investigated peer aggression in sports clubs. The prevalence and stability of peer aggression, prosocial behavior, and resource control strategies for children participating in three types of sports (martial arts, contact, and noncontact sports) were examined in two contexts: the sports club and the elementary school. We distinguished aggressive children with (i.e., Machiavellians) and without prosocial tendencies (i.e., coercive-aggressive children). Self-reports about experiences in the two contexts where gathered from 1,425 Dutch elementary school students (717 boys and 708 girls, fourth to sixth grade, mean age 11.25 years) who were participating in a sports club. We found roles for resource control strategies to be rather stable across contexts. The findings did not provide support for the “enhancement” assumption in these contexts with regard to martial arts participants.

Resource control strategies and personality traits

2014 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 118-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virgil Zeigler-Hill ◽  
Ashton C. Southard ◽  
Avi Besser
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Resource Control

scholarly journals Preschool Power Play: Resource Control Strategies Associated with Health

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber R. Massey ◽  
Jennifer Byrd-Craven ◽  
CaSandra L. Swearingen
Keyword(s):  
Effortful Control ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Resource Control ◽  
Social Strategies ◽  
Social Strategy ◽  
Health Assessments ◽  
Multimethod Approach ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Power Play ◽  
Temperament Characteristic

Background. This exploratory study uses a multimethod approach to examine the relationship between social strategy usage and overall health in preschool children. Methods. Children's temperament, social strategies, and health assessments were obtained via reported behavior from parents and teachers. In addition, children's use of prosocial and coercive strategies was observed and recorded via one-way windows in the preschool facility. Results. Results revealed that the temperament characteristic of effortful control was related to the observed use of coercive strategies and that coercive strategies were not observed by teachers, who viewed these children as primarily prosocial. The reported use of both coercive and prosocial strategies was also related to decrease in illness. Conclusion. These findings in relation to previous work suggest that using both prosocial and coercive strategies can elevate status as well as maintain health even in young children.

Adaptive insecure attachment and resource control strategies during middle childhood

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 389-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin-Bin Chen ◽  
Lei Chang
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Life History Theory ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Developmental Differences ◽  
Resource Control ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
Group A

By integrating the life history theory of attachment with resource control theory, the current study examines the hypothesis that insecure attachment styles reorganized in middle childhood are alternative adaptive strategies used to prepare for upcoming competition with the peer group. A sample of 654 children in the second through seventh grades in Shanghai, China, participated in this study. The children reported attachment relationships with their mother and the use of resource control strategies in the peer group. Boys had higher avoidant attachment scores than girls, whereas girls had higher ambivalent attachment scores than boys. Moreover, avoidant attachment was positively associated with the use of coercive strategies to control resources. Ambivalent attachment was associated with the use of both coercive and prosocial strategies to control resources. A number of other gender and developmental differences were also observed. The implications for the adaptiveness of insecure attachment in middle childhood are discussed.

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