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engaging in high rates of aggressive behavior with peers. The lack of variation in these two
variables may have limited the ability to detect a statistically significant relationship. A larger
sample with more variance is needed to further explore the relationships between these variables.
Because the backwards stepwise regression procedure eliminated both CBS variables for
predicting CBVS Action Choices makes this methodological model suspect to doubt. Similarly,
the multinominial regression procedure may be suspect to doubt as a methodological model
because it failed to produce significant results for CBVS Justification Choices.
Additionally, the low numbers of children participating in the study who chose
aggressive actions on the CBVS may suggest a chance of being wrong a greater percentage of
time than correct. In contrast to the preponderance of research to the contrary, some researchers
might argue that aggressive bullying behavior tends to occur when adults are either not around or
when adults are not looking and that children; and, therefore, teachers may differ in their reports
about children’s behavior, especially about children’s antisocial, aggressive behavior (Veenstraa
et al., 2008). A problematic issue in this study with regard to relating teacher-report perceptions
of children’s Aggressive Behavior with Peers to child-report perceptions of bullying with peers
is that the CBS asks teachers to identify children who are perpetrators of bullying; whereas,
CBVS asks children how they would respond to a perpetrator. Teachers may not have knowledge
about how children think in these situations. One implication for intervention is that teachers
need to be informed about how children’s cognitive processes vary when they are deciding how
to respond to victimization.
It is important to note that the CBVS parametric analyses revealed significant internal
consistencies and correlations for Aggressive Actions Choices and Aggressive/Retribution
Justifications. One reason this is important is because Ladd and Profilet (1996) found that
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