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Kaj Björkqvist
Researcher at Åbo Akademi University
Publications - 130
Citations - 11582
Kaj Björkqvist is an academic researcher from Åbo Akademi University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aggression & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 125 publications receiving 10982 citations. Previous affiliations of Kaj Björkqvist include University of Turku.
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Bullying as a group process: Participant roles and their relations to social status within the group
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated bullying as a group process, asocial phenomenon taking place in a school setting among 573 Finnish sixth-grade children (286 girls, 287 boys) aged 12-13 years.
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Do Girls Manipulate and Boys Fight? Developmental Trends in Regard to Direct and Indirect Aggression
TL;DR: In this article, gender differences in regard to aggressive behavior were investigated in a series of studies of schoolchildren of different age cohorts: 8-year-olds (N = 85), 11-year olds (n = 167), and 15-year old (n= 127), using peer nomination techniques, supported by self-ratings.
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Is Indirect Aggression Typical of Females? Gender Differences in Aggressiveness in 11- to 12-Year-Old Children
TL;DR: Gender differences regarding aggressive behaviour were investigated in 167 school children, 11 to 12 years of age, through peer-rating techniques supported by self-ratings and interviews as discussed by the authors, finding that girls made greater use of indirect means of aggression, whereas the boys tended to employ direct means.
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Sex differences in physical, verbal, and indirect aggression: A review of recent research
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that it is incorrect, or rather, nonsensical, to claim that males are more aggressive than females, and a theory regarding the development of styles of aggressive behavior is presented.
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Aggression among university employees
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated harassment among university employees (n = 338; 162 males, 176 females) by help of the Work Harassment Scale (WHS), developed for the study and interviewed nineteen cases of severe victimization by harassment.