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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"proactive aggression"”.
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Heart Rate as a Moderator between Child Abuse Potential and Reactive and Proactive Aggression
… research regarding the biosocial approach to aggression suggests that the interaction between biological and environmental variables contribute to aggression. However, this particular relationship has not yet been fully explored in children. Therefore, this study examined the moderating …
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Social Information Processing as a Mediator of Exposure to Community Violence and Reactive and Proactive Aggression
The relationship between exposure to violence and aggression has been examined by many researchers. It has been reported that physically abused children and children from violent communities have more aggressive behavior than non-abused peers or peers from non-violent communities (Dodge et al., …
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Differential Responses of Children with Varying Degrees of Reactive and Proactive Aggression to Two Forms of Psychosocial Treatment
… clinical correlates of two subtypes of childhood aggression (reactive and proactive), this study examined possible differential treatment effects for children with varying degrees of reactive or proactive aggression receiving one of two types of psychosocial treatment aimed at addressing these …
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The Relationship between Aggressive Behavior and Social Cognitive Abilities in Preschool Children
… and physical) and functions(reactive and proactive) of aggressive behavior in preschool children and the relationship of these behaviors to social-cognitive abilities. Naturalistic observations and teacher reports were used to assess the aggressive behavior of 60 preschool children. …
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Social Likeability, Subtypes of Aggression, and the Attributional Style of Aggressive Youth
… and predict the onset and maintenance of aggression have considered the heterogeneity of this behavior. Dodge (1980) and others, have suggested a distinction in aggression based on two primary subtypes: reactive and proactive aggression. The form, severity and persistence of these …
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Examining Locus of Control and Attributional Style as Contributing Factors in the Narcissism-Aggression Relation
… a consistent relation between narcissism and aggression in adults (Bushman & Baumeister, 1998; Stucke, 2003). Although relatively few studies have examined this relation in adolescents, narcissism has previously been correlated with behavioral problems (Washburn, McMahon, King, Reinecke, & …
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The relationships among aggressive functions, family factors, and internalizing and externalizing symptoms in youth
Aggression is a heterogeneous behavior that has been conceptualized by two distinct but inter-related functions: proactive and reactive aggression (Dodge, 1991). Proactive aggression has been linked to externalizing behaviors and reactive aggression to internalizing behaviors (Vitaro, Gendreau, …
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The role of dysfunctional peer relationships and academic failure in the development and progression of aggression
Background: Aggression is a severe behavioral problem that interferes with many developmental challenges individuals face in middle childhood and adolescence. Particularly in the peer and in the academic domain, aggression inhibits the individual from making important learning experiences that are …
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Social Information Processing, Cortisol Secretion, and Aggression in Adolescents
… processing and cortisol secretion in childhood aggression have generated a great deal of interest and research in the past few decades, these social-cognitive and physiological components of aggressive behavior have not been examined in the context of an integrative model. This lack of an …
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Developmental Pathways for Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders
… associated with thrill seeking behavior and proactive aggression in the child, and insecure attachment in the caregiver. A second pathway, characterized by child negative reactivity, was hypothesized to be positively associated with reactive aggression in the child and disorganized attachment …
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Adolescent Perceptions and Beliefs of Proactive-Reactive Aggression Explored Through the Social Information Processing Model of Aggression.
Human aggression is a frequently studied aspect of human behavior. Although great strides have been made not one single theory can fully explain the complexity of aggression. The Social Information Processing model of aggression (Crick and Dodge, 1994) has served as a useful tool to examine …
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The Dynamic Interplay of Attachment and Temperament in Relation to Dimensions of Aggression
… overt and relational forms of reactive and proactive aggression were differentially related to adolescents’ temperament and attachment security. Measures of adolescents’ temperament, attachment security, and aggression were completed by 211 adolescents, ages 10–14, and their caregivers. …
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Examining Cognitive and Emotional Correlates to Proactive and Reactive Relational and Overt Aggression in a Community Sample
… of distinguishing between the reactive, proactive, relational, and overt forms of aggression by examining the distinct correlates to these types of aggression and test potential gender differences in these correlates. This study also attempts to tie research on aggression with research on …
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Investigating Exposure to Community Violence and Associated Internalizing and Externalising Behaviours in a Sample of South African Male Youth
… Traits; Maudsley Addiction Profile and Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire). Results indicated that not all three subcategories of exposure to community violence were significant predictors of the outcome variables. The results of the regression analyses showed: exposure to community …
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Childhood aggression in schools: The impact of behavioral patterns and contextual influences on teachers' cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses
… influences on the course and treatment of aggression in schools, in an effort to inform future intervention development. The aim of the present study was to examine possible influences on teachers' response to reactive and proactive aggression in the classroom, and test the applicability of …
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Pathways of Psychopathic Traits to Aggression Through Affective Correlates
… between psychopathic personality traits and aggression within an undergraduate sample. The project addresses three gaps in research – how psychopathic personality traits relate to empathy facets from a recently developed measure of empathy (Affective and Cognitive Measure of Empathy [ACME]; …
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Cognitive and Affective Empathy as Predictors of Proactive and Reactive Aggression
… cognitive and affective empathy as predictors of proactive and reactive aggression. This study also explored whether levels of cognitive and affective empathy differed among children who use proactive and reactive aggression. Cognitive and affective empathy were measured by the Basic Empathy Scale …
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Negative Affect in the Relationship between Internalizing Symptoms and Aggression: The Role of Effortful Control
… depression and externalizing symptoms such as aggression, the reason for this co-occurrence remains unclear. High negative affect is one factor that has been proposed to explain the connection between anxiety and depression, as well as between these internalizing symptoms and externalizing …
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Testing the Impact of Social Acceptance on Outcomes: Comparing Two Forms of an Intervention for Aggressive Youth
… intervention for children at risk for aggression and associated problems. Recent studies have tested individual- and program-level factors that may enhance or hinder meaningful CP outcomes. Some factors, such as inhibitory control and genetic factors, have supported administering CP in …
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Social Status Inflation, Narcissism, and Aggression: The Role of Peer Victimization as a Potential Moderator
… social status inflation and narcissism to aggression in children, especially pertaining to peer relationships. The literature does not yet address how these concepts may be impacted by peer victimization. Both children with higher levels of social status inflation and narcissism have been …
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