Being a good or a just teacher: Which experiences of teachers ’ behavior can be more predictive of school bullying?
In two cross‐sectional questionnaire studies with N = 2,931 German students, aged between 12 and 17 years (M = 14.1, SD = 0.5), we investigated the relation between students’ bullying behavior and their personal belief in a just world (BJW). We considered students’ personal experience of teacher justice as a possible mediator in this relation and investigated whether the students’ experiences of their teachers’ classroom management explained bullying behavior in addition to personal BJW and teacher justice, while statistically controlling for sex and school type. In both studies, multilevel modeling r...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - July 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthias Donat, Michel Knigge, Claudia Dalbert Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Aggression ‐related brain function assessed with the Point Subtraction Aggression Paradigm in fMRI
The Point Subtraction Aggression Paradigm (PSAP) measures aggressive behavior in response to provocations. The aim of the study was to implement the PSAP in a functional neuroimaging environment (fMRI) and evaluate aggression‐related brain reactivity including response to provocations and associations with aggression within the paradigm. Twenty healthy participants completed two 12‐min PSAP sessions within the scanner. We evaluated brain responses to aggressive behavior (removing points from an opponent), provocations (point subtractions by the opponent), and winning points. Our results showed significant ventral and d...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - July 25, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anine P. Skibsted, Sofi da Cunha ‐Bang, Justin M. Carré, Adam E. Hansen, Vincent Beliveau, Gitte M. Knudsen, Patrick M. Fisher Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Effects of harsh parenting and positive parenting practices on youth aggressive behavior: The moderating role of early pubertal timing
This study is the first to document support for early pubertal timing as susceptibility to the environmental influences in relation to aggressive behavior. Theoretical and intervention implications are discussed. (Source: Aggressive Behavior)
Source: Aggressive Behavior - July 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Frances R. Chen, Adrian Raine Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The object of my aggression: Sexual objectification increases physical aggression toward women
Objectification involves reducing someone to a sexual object, rather than seeing them as a full person. Despite numerous theoretical claims that people are more aggressive toward the objectified, and empirical evidence that objectification is linked to high willingness to aggress, rape proclivity, and aggressive attitudes, no research has examined a causal link between objectification and physical aggression, particularly in the context of provocation. In two experiments, we examined this predicted link. In Experiment 1, using a 2 (objectification: no/yes) × 2 (provocation: no/yes) factorial between‐subjects design,...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - June 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eduardo A. Vasquez, Louisa Ball, Steve Loughnan, Afroditi Pina Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Aggressive Behavior - June 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Effortful control, exposure to community violence, and aggressive behavior: Exploring cross ‐lagged relations in adolescence
Self‐regulation processes and violent contexts play an important role in predicting adolescents’ aggressive behavior; less clear is how all three constructs are linked to each other over time. The present study examined the longitudinal relations among adolescents’ self‐reported effortful control (EC), exposure to community violence, both as a witness and as a victim, and aggressive behavior. Participants were 768 Italian adolescents (358 males) living in a high‐risk context, with a mean age at T1 of 11 years in the younger cohort and 14 years in the older cohort. In a four‐wave cross‐lagged panel design, low...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - June 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Concetta Esposito, Dario Bacchini, Nancy Eisenberg, Gaetana Affuso Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Child and adolescent risk factors that differentially predict violent versus nonviolent crime
While most research on the development of antisocial and criminal behavior has considered nonviolent and violent crime together, some evidence points to differential risk factors for these separate types of crime. The present study explored differential risk for nonviolent and violent crime by investigating the longitudinal associations between three key child risk factors (aggression, emotion dysregulation, and social isolation) and two key adolescent risk factors (parent detachment and deviant peer affiliation) predicting violent and nonviolent crime outcomes in early adulthood. Data on 754 participants (46% African Amer...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - June 8, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Carla B. Kalvin, Karen L. Bierman Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Differences in the early stages of social information processing for adolescents involved in bullying
This study investigated the effects of bullying and victimization on early SIP; specifically the recognition and interpretation of social information. In stage 1, 2,782 adolescents (11–16 years) were screened for bullying involvement, and in stage 2, 723 of these participants (mean age = 13.95) were assessed on measures of emotion recognition, hostile attribution bias, and characterological self‐blame (CSB). No associations between bullying and early SIP were found. In contrast, victimization was associated with more hostile attribution bias and CSB attributions. Girls performed better than boys on the emotion reco...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - June 7, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alexa Guy, Kirsty Lee, Dieter Wolke Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Effects of trait anger, driving anger, and driving experience on dangerous driving behavior: A moderated mediation analysis
This study is a moderated mediation analysis of the effect of trait anger, driving anger, and driving experience on driving behavior. A sample of 303 drivers was tested using the Trait Anger Scale (TAS), the Driving Anger Scale (DAS), and the Dula Dangerous Driving Index (DDDI). The results showed that trait anger and driving anger were positively correlated with dangerous driving behavior. Driving anger partially mediated the effect of trait anger on dangerous driving behavior. Driving experience moderated the relationship between trait anger and driving anger. It also moderated the effect of driving anger on dangerous dr...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - May 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yan Ge, Qian Zhang, Wenguo Zhao, Kan Zhang, Weina Qu Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Feeling unrestricted by rules: Ostracism promotes aggressive responses
The current research consisted of three studies (overall N = 338; 59 men; mean age = 19.98; SD = 1.75), which aimed to examine whether ostracism promotes aggression through enhanced feelings of rule negligence by adopting a multi‐method approach. Participants were undergraduate students in a public university in Hong Kong and they only participated in one of the three studies. The results showed that ostracized participants reported higher levels of rule negligence and aggression than non‐ostracized participants (Studies 1 and 2). Moreover, enhanced feelings of rule negligence significantly mediated the rel...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - May 26, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kai ‐Tak Poon, Fei Teng Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Your act is worse than mine: Perception bias in revenge situations
Theoretical reflections suggest that avengers and targets of revenge have self‐serving perception biases when judging the severity of revenge acts and preceding offenses. Empirical research investigating such biases has so far focused on either the offense or the revenge act and may have confounded a perception bias with a situational selection bias (i.e., avengers and targets selecting different events in self‐serving ways, so that there may be actual, as opposed to perceptual, differences in severity). The current research circumvents this shortcoming by empirically investigating this perception bias by assessing ave...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - May 26, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Maartje Elshout, Rob M. A. Nelissen, Ilja van Beest Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Female undergraduate's perceptions of intrusive behavior in 12 countries
The present study examines young women's (N = 1,734) perceptions of the unacceptability of 47 intrusive activities enacted by men. Female undergraduate psychology students from 12 countries (Armenia, Australia, England, Egypt, Finland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Scotland, Trinidad) indicated which of 47 intrusive activities they considered to be unacceptable. Responses were compared with parasite‐stress values, a measure of global gender equality and Hofstede's dimensions of national cultures. There was no unanimous agreement on any of the items, even for those relating to forced sexual violence. Clust...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - May 15, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lorraine Sheridan, Adrian J. Scott, John Archer, Karl Roberts Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Resource partitioning in tolerant and intolerant macaques
This study investigates whether dominance asymmetry and resource partitioning are related in non‐human primates by comparing two species with contrasting social styles, namely rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) which display strong social intolerance and a steep gradient of dominance, and Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana), which exhibit higher levels of tolerance and more balanced dominance relationships. Study groups were kept in semi‐free ranging conditions. Animals were provided with fruit in three different clumped conditions during 30‐min trials. We found that higher‐ranking rhesus macaques had priority for the...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - April 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nancy Rebout, Christine Desportes, Bernard Thierry Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Piecing together the aggression puzzle: Testing the mediating variables linking early to later aggression
Results from several studies show that early aggression predicts later aggression; however, few studies have examined the mediating mechanisms in these relations. The paucity of research that has tested mediation found that aggressive motives and hostile attributions are important causal processes. This past work is limited by not measuring aggression multiple times throughout the study to test aggression change over time and the variables that mediate such change. The current study had participants (N = 90) interact with a same‐sex confederate on a modified version of the Tangram Task—our measure of aggressive beh...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - April 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christopher P. Barlett, Kaitlyn M. Helmstetter, Douglas A. Kowalewski, Logan Pezzillo Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Aggressive Behavior - April 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
