PROVOKED BY A PEER - CHILDRENS ANGER-RELATED RESPONSES AND THEIR RELATIONS TO SOCIAL FUNCTIONING

children's (n = 108) angry conflict incidents were examined in detail. Boys and girls, ages 7 to 11, described actual angry conflicts with p eers and were questioned about the causes of their anger, their goals, and strategies. Further, relations of anger-related internal and beha vioral reactions to children's social functioning (i.e., adults' ratin gs of children's self-regulation, emotional intensity, and social comp etence) were examined. Boys high in social functioning tended to repor t constructive goals and children high in social functioning tended to report constructive strategies. After the effects of the situation (c ause of anger), sex, and age were controlled, social functioning contr ibuted unique variance to the prediction of constructive goals but not constructive strategies. There were few effects of age, although sex differences were found.