The Importance Of Antisocial Behavior

Introduction

In the early years of children, issues of challenging behaviors are bound to surface due to the people in their environment such as peers and the teachers. With the focus steered towards the age group of 4 to 5 years olds, this essay discusses how peers and teachers can encourage the challenging behaviour of antisocial; the presence of antisocial (E.g. angry, destructive, or defiant) behavior and the absence of prosocial (E.g. communicative or compliant) behavior.

Teachers

The teachers can augment the child’s antisocial or absence of prosocial behavior in the following ways: type of pedagogy, teacher-centered approach, and misapplication of group dynamics and inappropriate control of attention given.

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It should be a child-centered approach and varied with emphasis on encouraging children's independence, their social and emotional growth, creativity and self-expression, where the teacher responds entirely to individual child's interests and needs. Thus, with the misappropriation of pedagogy style, it may cause the antisocial children portraying aggressiveness, as they cannot express their needs and self properly. As such, feel frustrated and display it out in terms of retreating from others or being

According to Bronfenbrenner, a child’s microsystem is the small, immediate interactions the child engages in and these groups or organizations will have an effect on how the child grows (Oswalt, 2013). Therefore, influences from peers the child interacts with can encourage the behaviors of antisocial through modeling as behavior is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning (McLeod, 2011). Having more group members who are proficient in social skills provides more models for those who have poor social skills (Brigman & Goodman, 2008; P´erusse, Goodnough, & Lee, 2009), while aggressive children benefit in interacting with less aggressive members. Thus, peer influence can either heighten or decrease the behavior of an antisocial child and is a factor that should not be