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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"physical aggression"”.
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Physical Aggression and Controlling Behaviours Within Relationships
… (1995; 1999) that there are distinct patterns of physical aggression within relationships, characterised as common couple violence and intimate terrorism. To investigate Johnson's theory, a stratified sample containing students (n=1 13), women from a domestic violence refuge (n=43), and male …
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Parental investment and physical aggression among males
Past research indicates that men are physically more aggressive than women. Socio-cultural explanations for this sex difference involve variants of learning theory and a tabula rasa psychology. Sexual selection theory provides a more coherent ultimate explanation for sex differences in this and …
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Correlates of verbal aggression and physical aggression among post- adolescent students
… study explored the correlation between verbal aggression and physical aggression among post-adolescent students, and included demographic factors such as biological sex, socioeconomic status, and the highest education level achieved by parents. The study is predicated on a paucity of evidence …
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The development and inhibition of physical aggression in early childhood : measurement and associations
… suggests that the age at which humans are most physically aggressive is at the end of the second year of life. Typically, children will subsequently show a gradual decline in aggression during the third year of life and by the time they reach kindergarten, they will have learned to inhibit much …
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Violent video game exposure and physical aggression in adolescence: Tests of the General Aggression Model
<p>The General Aggression Model indicates that long term exposure to violent video games increases aggression by altering players' aggressive personality (Anderson & Bushman, 2002). In this dissertation, cross-sectional and longitudinal tests of this mediated relation were conducted to determine if …
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Relational and physical aggression in late childhood : links to social adjustment in group and dyadic relations
Relational aggression (RA), thought to be more typical of females, is a form of aggression in which relationships are used as vehicles of harm (Crick & Grotpeter, 1995). This study investigated sex-differences in the prevalence of RA and physical aggression (PA), as well as the group and friendship …
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The mediating and moderating effects of women's attachment style on interrelationships among emotional abuse, physical aggression and relational stability.
… and violence. Given the impact of men's physical aggression and emotional abuse on women, it is likely that these behaviors would also affect attachment. A model proposing that women's attachment style mediated and moderated the relationship between partners' physical and emotional abuse …
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The Role of Caregiver Contingent Responsiveness In Promoting Compliance and Preventing Verbal and Physical Aggression In Preschool-Aged Children
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine relations between parents' contingent responding to their children and the behavior of their preschool-aged children, in the context of other relevant parenting behaviors. Parents were observed interacting with their 3-6 year-old children during two …
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Developmental Trajectories of Physical Aggression in Low-Income African American and Hispanic Children: Relations to Household Risk and Child Inhibitory Control
… examined developmental trajectories of physical aggression in low-income African American and Hispanic preschoolers as they transitioned to primary school. Three developmental trajectories were expected to be identified in the data: a low physical aggression group, a group that begins …
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An exploratory study of female partner aggression: The role of relationship dynamics
… to examine differences between female and male aggression; to examine the effect various aggression, dominance, and couple variables have on female physical aggression; to identify which combination of these variables bests explains female aggression in a sample of couples seeking therapy for …
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How Culture Impacts Relational Aggression in Elementary School-Age Children
… whether cultural differences existed in forms of aggression and prosocial behaviors among 8 to 10 year old students in Ireland (N=145) and Puerto Rico (N=56) and if the prevalence of these forms of aggression differed between genders. Classroom teachers using the Children’s Social Behavior Scale – …
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Cultural Differences in Relational Aggression in an Elementary School-Age Sample
… whether there were differences in relational aggression in 9- to 10-year-old boys and girls in Hungarian and German samples. There has been very little empirical research conducted comparing children of diverse cultures in their use of relational aggression. The current study used teachers’ …
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A Qualitative Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence
… I applied these types of IPV to describe women's physical aggression, control, and emotional responses experienced and performed during IPV. Johnson's typology classified six of 10 participant experiences; to describe the remaining four, I applied blended types of IPV. Findings in this study …
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The Severity of Recurrent Violence During and Following Couples\' Participation in Domestic Violence-Focused Couple Therapy
… study explores the severity of psychological and physical aggression that recurred during and following couples\' participation in Domestic Violence-Focused Couple Therapy. The overall recurrence of violence was found to be quite high. Chi Square tests revealed a difference in severity of violence …
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A Study of Factors Predicting Dating Violence Perpetration Among Male and Female College Students
… anger management skills, partner’s use of physical aggression, and partner’s use of psychological aggression. Correlations and multiple regressions were run for each gender. The study found that for males, partner’s use of physical aggression, low anger management skills and high …
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Male values and male violence
… may constitute important determinants of male aggression reflected, for instance, in the utility of physical aggression to acquire and defend status and to confirm a masculine identity. The case studies demonstrated that male value systems provide insights into the causation of extreme acts of …
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Understanding Psychological Control Through Differences Between Shame and Disappointment: Implications for Childhood Agression
… play in predicting children's relational and physical aggression. It was additionally of interest to investigate whether warm/involved parenting would moderate the effects of these forms of psychological control on both types of childhood aggression. Based on a review of literature, it was …
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An investigation of the behavioural, dispositional, and personality associations with former-intimate harassment perpetration and victimisation
… associated perpetrator behaviour, particularly physical aggression ( e.g., Coleman, 1997), and on the impact of harassment on victims ( e.g., Sheridan, 2001 ). The current research aimed to contribute to a wider understanding of former-intimate harassment by simultaneously investigating …
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