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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"aggressive children"”.
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Attachment and Anxiety in Aggressive Children and Adolescents
… of anxiety and current attachment in an aggressive population of youth. There is a substantial body of research that relates poor attachment to aggressive-related behaviors (e.g., Allen, Hauser, Borman-Spurrell, 1996; Gacono & Meloy, 1994; Meesters & Muris, 2002; NICHD-ECCRN, 2006; …
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Attributional style: a comparison of assertive and aggressive children
… mediating role of social cognitive processes in aggressive behavior for both boys and girls. Secondly, the use of current self-report measures of children's assertive and attributional style allowed for investigation of construct validity of these measures. Third, the relationship of current …
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Social reasoning, negative emotionality, and emotion understanding in rejected aggressive children
… understanding in different subtypes of rejected aggressive children. Eighty-five 4th, 5th, and 6th grade boys and girls identified through peer nomination as rejected overtly aggressive, rejected relationally aggressive, rejected relationally and overtly aggressive, or popular were included in …
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Gestalt therapy approaches with aggressive children in a day care setting
… could be used effectively when intervening with aggressive acts in a day care setting. Five focus children were observed at timed intervals as to whether or not they were aggressive, how the caretaker intervened, and how the children responded to the caretaker intervention. After a baseline of …
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Evaluation of an anger management program with aggressive children in residential treatment
… attempts have been made to reduce aggression in children by other means, there is evidence to suggest that cognitive therapies might be useful in reducing aggression by enhancing anger-management. The present study was one of the first efforts to evaluate the efficacy of an adapted …
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Relational Aggression, Overt Aggression, and Family Relationships
… characteristics of family relationships and children's (mainly boys') use of physical aggression in the peer group. This study is a first step toward examining processes in the family relationships (parent-child relationship, the interparental relationship) of relationally aggressive children …
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Relational and physical aggression in late childhood : links to social adjustment in group and dyadic relations
… relations of relationally and physically aggressive children. It was predicted that (a) girls would be rated as more relationally aggressive than boys when extreme group scores of RA were examined; (b) boys would be rated as more relationally aggressive than girls when continuous measures …
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Effects of Child-Centered Play Therapy and Curriculum-Based Small-Group Guidance on the Behaviors of Children Referred for Aggression in an Elementary School Setting
… small-group guidance on the behaviors of aggressive children in an elementary school as determined by (a) the reduction of aggressive behaviors, (b) the decrease in internalizing problems, and (c) the decrease in externalizing problems of aggressive children. Two types of behavioral …
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Children's Understanding of the Emotions of Victims and Victimizers: Developmental and Peer Status Differences
Research has shown that children's standing in the peer group is an extremely valid predictor of later developmental problems. Children who are rejected by their peers and who exhibit aggressive behavior have a poor developmental prognosis; these rejected/aggressive children often have problems …
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Social information processing in aggressive and withdrawn preschool children
… a means of understanding interaction patterns in children. Within the framework of that model, systematic biases have been found in the manner in which aggressive children process social information. The present study sought to extend that literature by applying the model to younger children, by …
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Effective Strategies for Managing Aggressive Behavior
… integrating disabled students, who demonstrate aggressive behaviors, into general education classrooms is explored in this analysis. The history of this issue is first examined by tracing the movement from mainstreaming to full inclusion under the law. Next, an examination of the factors that …
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Understanding Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Aggression in Young Children: An Affective Dyadic Systems Approach
… in the development and continued trajectory of aggressive behaviours. In addition, aggressive children can influence maternal depressive symptoms and parenting behaviours that subsequently increase the risk of aggression in children. To understand the unique emotional patterns that occurs within …
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An examination of the relationship between the positive illusory bias and the subtypes of aggression across time: a multi-method perspective
… and the subtypes of aggression in a sample of aggressive children (n = 120) across three time points using multiple informants. In addition, a methodological question was explored by using difference and residual scores of the bias to examine its relationship with proactive and reactive …
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Hostile attribution bias in children and adolescents
… aggression affects a significant number of children and represents the majority of referrals to child clinical services (Ford, Hamilton, Meltzer, & Goodman, 2007). There are substantial costs for the child, their family and society more generally if aggressive behaviour remains untreated …
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Social Information Processing, Cortisol Secretion, and Aggression in Adolescents
… social-cognitive and physiological components of aggressive behavior have not been examined in the context of an integrative model. This lack of an integrative framework may underlie some of the inconsistencies that have plagued the literature in this area to date, especially with respect to …
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Investigation of Relational and Overt Aggression Among Boys and Girls
… social exclusion; Crick & Grotpeter, 1995). Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are a particular subset of youth who are at increased risk for exhibiting aggressive behavior (Henker & Whalen, 1999; Whalen & Henker, 1985). The purpose of the present study was to …
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Cognitive mediators of aggression
A large amount of research suggests that aggressive children differ from their nonaggressive peers in the way they process social information in conflict situations. Using Crick & Dodge's (1994) Social Information Processing following Provocation Model as a theoretical framework, this investigation …
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Assessment of the correlates of sociometric status in children: behavioral, cognitive, peer perception and age differences
… been demonstrated most reliably with withdrawn children. However, it is unclear whether cognitive skill deficits discourage interaction or whether reluctance to engage in social interaction impedes the development of social understanding. With this, as with other variables, it is likely best …
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An examination of children's strategy responses to two types of conflict situations
… to provide a more differential assessment of children's responses to interpersonal conflict. A distinction was made between two types of peer conflict situations: equal legitimacy conflict situations and rights infraction conflict situations. Equal legitimacy conflict situations involve …
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Mood, Social Goals and Children's Outcome Expectancies
… that emotions, arousal, and goals affect how children reason in social situations, but, thus far, there has been very little research on how these variables interact. It has been hypothesized that emotion could affect any area of social information processing directly, but it has also been …
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