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of children’s Prosocial Action Choice responses and children’s Aggressive Action Choice
responses are different. Additionally, the proportions of children Prosocial Action Choice
responses were higher than children’s Aggressive Action Choice responses. Therefore, I reject
the null hypothesis and I conclude that children who chose Justice/Fair Justification Choices
were more likely to choose Prosocial Action Choices than children who chose Aggressive Action
Choices. See Table 14.
Table 14
CBVS Test and Confidence Interval for One Proportion for Justice/Fair Justification Choices
Test of p = 0.5 vs. p not = 0.5
Sample ƒ n Sample p 95% CI Exact P-Value
1 281 369 .761518 (0.714679, 0.804104) 0.000
N = 632 responses
The next research question considered the issue of whether or not teacher reports on the
Child Behavior Scale (CBS) were predictive of children’s Action Choice responses on the
Children’s Bully/Victim Scale (CBVS).
Question Four
Do teacher-reports of children’s behavior with peers (Prosocial With Peers vs. Aggressive With
Peers) relate to children’s CBVS Action Choices (Prosocial vs. Aggressive)?
A stepwise backwards logistic regressions tested following null hypotheses: (1) There is
no relationship between the proportion of teacher reports on the Prosocial With Peers subscale of
the CBS and children’s Action Choice responses (Prosocial vs. Aggressive) and (2) There is no
relationship between the proportion of teacher reports on the Aggressive With Peers subscale of
the CBS and children’s Action Choice responses (Prosocial vs. Aggressive). The backwards
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