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Showing 1 to 20 of 227 for “"antisocial"”.
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Factors Predicting Therapeutic Alliance in Antisocial Adolescents
… children and adolescents is often hard, treating antisocial youth is especially difficult because of the social, cognitive, and emotional deficits experienced by these youth. This study investigated whether differing levels of callous-unemotional (CU) traits influenced the formation of therapeutic …
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Attitudes toward Antisocial Personality Disorder Among Clinicians
… this study was to explore the attitudes toward antisocial personality disorder among clinicians. The researcher created a 15 question survey to interview clinicians in hopes of eliciting information about their attitudes toward this population. The survey consisted of seven open ended questions …
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Underlying processes of antisocial decisions: Adolescents versus adults
… that sensation seeking was a reason TO engage in antisocial behavior, and from differences on consequential thinking variables. In all, findings suggests that for adolescents, but not adults, the domains most central to the endorsement of antisocial decisions are outcome expectancies related to …
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La conducta antisocial en la adolescencia una aproximación ecológica
La implicación de jóvenes en actos antisociales y la mayor sensibilización de la sociedad hacia los riesgos que suponen hace necesario dirigir esfuerzos hacia su comprensión y abordaje. Conocedores de los altos costes sociales, económicos y personales que
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Emotional Intelligence And Decision-Making As Predictors Of Antisocial Behavior
<p>Problem</p> <p>Antisocial behaviors in the general population are not well understood and little studied, however, their acceptance is becoming more normalized and accepted by society. This present study intended to focus on the contributing factors of emotional intelligence and decision-making …
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Psychological and Sociological Mechanisms Linking Low SES and Antisocial Behavior
Antisocial behavior, both criminal and noncriminal, is a prominent yet poorly understood public health concern. Research on antisocial behavior typically focuses on either individual or environmental risk factors, rarely integrating risks across levels of analysis. Although low objective SES is …
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Heart rate reactivity, aggression, anger, and antisocial behavior in dating males
This study assessed heart rate reactivity and antisocial characteristics, subjective report of anger, and family history variables in 18 aggressive and 18 non-aggressive undergraduate males in an attempt to test the generalizability of Gottman et al.'s (1995) investigation of cardiovascular …
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A Multilevel Exploration of Neighborhood Disorder, Family Management and Antisocial Behavior
… between disorder, family management and youth antisocial behavior by posing four research questions. First, what are the effects of neighborhood disorder on family management practices? Second, how do family management strategies influence youth involvement in antisocial behavior? Third, how …
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Aggressive antisocial behavior- clinical, cognitive, and behavioral covariates of its persistence
Introduction Aggressive antisocial behavior is a major challenge to society, and studies on the determinants of its persistence are essential to the development of strategies to prevent violence. Aims & Methods The overall aim of the thesis was to establish covariates of persistent aggressive …
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Can the Triarchic Model Differentiate between Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder?
<p>Although Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) represents the closest diagnostic equivalent to psychopathy in the DSM-IV, it has long been recognized as failing to capture the full range of the construct. The current study examined the degree to which boldness, a trait domain within the …
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Understanding adolescent antisocial behaviour from attachment theory and coercion theory perspectives
This study examined adolescent antisocial behaviour from two theoretical perspectives: attachment and coercion theories. Adolescents (N = 662, mean age: 15.8 years) completed measures of coping styles, attachment styles and coercive interactions (with mother and father), and rated their parents' …
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The effects of toy exposure on children's prosocial and antisocial behavior
… relationship between exposure to prosocial and antisocial toys and the subsequent effects on children's short-term prosocial and antisocial behavior. The behaviors examined were physical antisocial behavior, verbal antisocial behavior, physical prosocial behavior, and verbal prosocial behavior. …
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Determining Deviance: An Examination of Stress and Antisocial Coping among College Undergraduates
Stress and strain impact our ability to achieve success in the goals we set. To understand the stress process better, this study uses a survey of undergraduates in order to 1) identify types of stressful experiences, 2) understand the mediating role of negative emotions, 3) evaluate how stress and …
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A Twin Study of Antisocial Behavior and Depression: Methodology, Etiology, and Comorbidity
… of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) and the nature of their comorbidity in young adults. Data from a sample of 2,291 young adult male and female twins from the Young Adult Follow Up Study (YAFU) of the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral …
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Ostracism and Antisocial Behavior: The Role of Perceived Justice, Entitlement, and Anger
<p>Recent research has demonstrated that antisocial behavior following a general ostracism experience is mediated by increased feelings of entitlement (Poon, Chen, & DeWall, 2013) and anger (Chow, Tiedens, & Govan, 2008). However, this prior research has failed to determine whether ostracism in …
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Callous Unemotional Traits and Patterns of Antisocial Behavior Among Female Juvenile Offenders
The primary objective of the current study involved examining the influence of callous-unemotional (CU) traits on the aggressive behavior and criminal offending of female juveniles committed to a secure juvenile justice facility. A history of physical abuse was examined as a potential moderator of …
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Amoral panic: the construction of 'antisocial behaviour' and the institutionalisation of vulnerability
… examine the emergence of the social problem of ‘antisocial behaviour’. Situated in part within the changing political terrain of the 1990s, the emergence of the politics of behaviour is related to the diminution of the human subject and the development of a therapeutic culture - both trends …
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Predicting Behavior from Psychopathic and Antisocial Personality Traits in a Student Sample.
… standards. In this study, psychopathic and antisocial personality traits are measured in a sample of college students via self-report surveys using questions derived from Hare's Psychopathic Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; 1991). Reliability and factor analyses were used to validate the inventory …
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