The author, Sumathi Reddy is stating that psychologist and educators are finding that children in kindergarten and younger are showing relational aggression. She describes that relational aggression is a term used to describe how someone uses the threat of removing a friendship as a weapon against others. Reddy states Reddy supports her main point by providing different creditable psychologist and educators opinions to Reddy states that relational aggression is more commen in girls. The author states that according to Laura Bardbour, a counselor at Stafford Primary School in West Linn, Ore. Children may forget scuffles on playgrounds but they don’t forget mean words and being left out. Reddy states Jamie Ostrov, an associate professor of psychology
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To start, both Ostrov and Nixon’s research studies were conducted on a random assignment. Another strong feature is that Reddy provided a real life situation to help show the effects of relational aggression. This allowed for groups to be equivalent before they conducted their research studies. Reddy provides good strong features for her argument, but there are some weak features as well. To start Reddy does not fully explain how Ostrov and Nixion’s research studies where preformed. This means we cannot tell if a control group was used. We also do not know if these study’s where isolated case studies or if they were group study’s. Lastly Reedy seems very unsure about the argument. At some point in the paper Reedy seems to be countering her …show more content…
According to Scutti Dr. Pamela Orpinas, professor in the University Of Georgia Department Of Health Promotion and Behavior, and her colleges conducted a study to find out whether girls are more likely to use relational aggression then boys. The study was made up or 620 students from nine middle schools. The students were equally divided between boys and girls. Scutti states that Orpinas found that the boys had a higher rating of relational aggression then the girls. This article can be connected to Reedy’s article through the theory that younger children are showing signs of relational aggression. Both articles explore relational aggression in younger children. In my opinion Reddy makes a good argument I strongly believe that relational aggression is a thing that should be taken care of. I believe Reedy had a strong argument and was able to back it
To start, both Ostrov and Nixon’s research studies were conducted on a random assignment. Another strong feature is that Reddy provided a real life situation to help show the effects of relational aggression. This allowed for groups to be equivalent before they conducted their research studies. Reddy provides good strong features for her argument, but there are some weak features as well. To start Reddy does not fully explain how Ostrov and Nixion’s research studies where preformed. This means we cannot tell if a control group was used. We also do not know if these study’s where isolated case studies or if they were group study’s. Lastly Reedy seems very unsure about the argument. At some point in the paper Reedy seems to be countering her …show more content…
According to Scutti Dr. Pamela Orpinas, professor in the University Of Georgia Department Of Health Promotion and Behavior, and her colleges conducted a study to find out whether girls are more likely to use relational aggression then boys. The study was made up or 620 students from nine middle schools. The students were equally divided between boys and girls. Scutti states that Orpinas found that the boys had a higher rating of relational aggression then the girls. This article can be connected to Reedy’s article through the theory that younger children are showing signs of relational aggression. Both articles explore relational aggression in younger children. In my opinion Reddy makes a good argument I strongly believe that relational aggression is a thing that should be taken care of. I believe Reedy had a strong argument and was able to back it