Two sides to the story: Adolescent and parent views on harmful intention in defining school bullying
This study explored the role of the perpetrator's harmful intention and the target's perception of harmful intention. Some 209 students (M = 14.5 years; 66.5% female) and 447 parents (M = 46.4 years; 86.4% female) were randomly assigned in an online survey. Participants assessed the likelihood of bullying in five hypothetical scenarios (physical, verbal, rumor, exclusion, and cyber) across five intention conditions, that also involved repetition and a power differential. The five intention conditions were: 1) harm intended by perpetrator (I) and perceived as intended to harm by target (I) [II condition]; 2) harm no...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - December 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hannah J. Thomas, Jason P. Connor, Chantelle M. Baguley, James G. Scott Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
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Source: Aggressive Behavior - December 8, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
The bidirectional associations between state anger and rumination and the role of trait mindfulness
This study contributes new information about the complex interplay of rumination and anger. Findings also add support to the theory that mindfulness decreases emotional reactivity. Aggr. Behav. 9999:1–10, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Source: Aggressive Behavior)
Source: Aggressive Behavior - December 4, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ashley Borders, Shou ‐En Lu Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Relation between social information processing and intimate partner violence in dating couples
We used couple‐level data to predict physical acts of intimate partner violence (IPV) from self‐reported negative emotions and social information‐processing (SIP) abilities among 100 dating couples (n = 200; mean age = 21.45 years). Participants read a series of hypothetical conflict situation vignettes and responded to questionnaires to assess negative emotions and various facets of SIP including attributions for partner behavior, generation of response alternatives, and response selection. We conducted a series of negative binomial mixed‐model regressions based on the actor‐partner interdependence model...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - December 4, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Setchell, Patti Timmons Fritz, Jillian Glasgow Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
A multifaceted risk analysis of fathers ’ self‐reported physical violence toward their children
In this study, 20 child‐, parent‐, and family‐related factors have been included in a combined analysis to assess which of these may pose a risk for fathers’ severe violent behavior toward their children. The study is based on merged data from Finland and Sweden, in which an anonymous survey was answered by parents, based on representative samples of parents with 0–12‐year‐old children. The merged data set included 679 fathers and analyses were carried out using logistic regression models. Six percent of the fathers had committed severe violent acts, that is, slapped, hit, punched, kicked, bit, hit/tried to h...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - November 22, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Noora Ellonen, Kirsi Peltonen, Tarja P ösö, Staffan Janson Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
A randomized controlled trial of a brief versus standard group parenting program for toddler aggression
Physical aggression (PA) in the toddler years is common and developmentally normal, however, longitudinal research shows that frequent PA is highly stable and associated with long‐term negative outcomes. Significant research has demonstrated the efficacy of parenting interventions for reducing externalizing behavior in children yet their typical length may overburden families, leading to low participation rates and high attrition rates. To increase the reach of parenting interventions and impact on the prevalence of externalizing behavior problems, brief interventions are needed. This RCT compared a standard (8 session) ...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - November 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lucy A. Tully, Caroline Hunt Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Bullying participant roles and gender as predictors of bystander intervention
This study examined preliminary evidence of reliability and validity of the Bystander Intervention Model in Bullying (Nickerson, Aloe, Livingston, & Feeley, 2014), and the extent to which bullying role behavior (bullying, assisting, victimization, defending, and outsider behavior) and gender predicted each step of the model with a sample of 299 middle school students. Results of a Confirmatory Factor Analysis supported a five‐factor structure of the measure corresponding to the steps of the model. There was evidence of convergent validity and Cronbach alpha for each subscale exceeded .75. In addition, students who re...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lyndsay N. Jenkins, Amanda B. Nickerson Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
The effects of environmental resource and security on aggressive behavior
Exposure to different environments has been reported to change aggressive behavior, but previous research did not consider the underlying elements that caused such an effect. Based on previous work on environmental perception, we examined the role of environmental resource and security in altering aggression level. In three experiments, participants were exposed to environments that varied in resource (High vs. Low) and security (High vs. Low) levels, after which aggression was measured. The environments were presented through visual priming (Experiments 1–2) and a first‐person gameplay (Experiment 3). We observed a co...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Henry Kin Shing Ng, Tak Sang Chow Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Teacher attunement to peer ‐nominated aggressors
This study examined the associations between teacher attunement to aggressive students and students’ characteristics in a sample (n = 278) of youth in 5th‐grade classrooms with the assumption that certain student characteristics may either prime or hinder teachers’ attunement to aggressive students. Teacher attunement was measured as the agreement between teacher‐ and peer‐nominations for students who start fights. Teachers rated their students on the following characteristics: academic competence, affiliation, popularity, internalizing behavior, and Olympian qualities. Higher affiliation, popularity, and int...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Molly Dawes, Chin ‐Chih Chen, Sharon K. Zumbrunn, Meera Mehtaji, Thomas W. Farmer, Jill V. Hamm Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Violent behavior among military reservists
This study used data from a large cohort study of randomly selected UK military personnel and included Reservists who were in service at the time of sampling (n = 1710). Data were collected by questionnaires that asked about socio‐demographic and military characteristics, pre‐enlistment antisocial behavior, deployment experiences, post‐deployment mental health, and self‐reported interpersonal violent behavior. The prevalence of violence among Reservists was 3.5%. Deployment was found to be a risk factor for violent behavior even after adjustment for confounders. The association with violence was similar for tho...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 23, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jamie Kwan, Margaret Jones, Lisa Hull, Simon Wessely, Nicola Fear, Deirdre MacManus Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
On the role of dominance and nurturance in the confluence model: A person ‐centered approach to the prediction of sexual aggression
Malamuth's (1998) confluence model holds that the combination of hostile masculinity, impersonal sexuality, and the constellation of high dominance and low nurturance plays a crucial role in explaining men's sexual aggression against women. Most studies on the confluence model concentrate on hostile masculinity and impersonal sexuality rather than dominance and nurturance. Using a person‐centered approach, we investigated whether sexual aggressive men could be better identified in a sample of 692 men when not only hostile masculinity and impersonal sexuality but also dominance and nurturance were used as indicators in a ...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 23, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stefan J. Troche, Philipp Yorck Herzberg Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Neural correlates of proactive and reactive aggression in adolescent twins
Verbal and physical aggression begin early in life and steadily decline thereafter in normal development. As a result, elevated aggressive behavior in adolescence may signal atypical development and greater vulnerability for negative mental and health outcomes. Converging evidence suggests that brain disturbances in regions involved in impulse control, emotional regulation, and sensation seeking may contribute to heightened aggression. However, little is known regarding the neural mechanisms underlying subtypes of aggression (i.e., proactive and reactive aggression) and whether they differ between males and females. Using ...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yaling Yang, Shantanu H. Joshi, Neda Jahanshad, Paul M. Thompson, Laura A. Baker Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Physical and relational bullying and victimization: Differential relations with adolescent dating and sexual behavior
Taking an evolutionary psychological perspective, we investigated whether involvement in bullying as a perpetrator or victim was more likely if adolescents reported having more dating and sexual partners than their peers, an indication of greater engagement in competition for mates. A total of 334 adolescents (173 boys, 160 girls) between the ages of 12 and 16 years (M = 13.6, SD = 1.3), recruited from community youth organizations, completed self‐report measures of physical and relational bullying and victimization, as well as dating and sexual behavior. As predicted, pure physical bullying was positively associ...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Andrew V. Dane, Zopito A. Marini, Anthony A. Volk, Tracy Vaillancourt Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
The role of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards in committing violence during combat: A cross ‐sectional study with former combatants in the DR Congo
It has been postulated that the violent behavior that characterizes armed conflict is reinforced by the possibility of receiving rewards. The present study examined the potential influence of two types of rewards in an ongoing setting of conflict: extrinsic and intrinsic rewards. Former combatants active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (N = 198) were interviewed and questioned about the way they were recruited, the offenses they committed during combat, their level of perceived intrinsic rewards (i.e., appetitive perception of violence), and the number of received extrinsic rewards during their time in the arme...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Roos Haer, Katharin Hermenau, Thomas Elbert, James K. Moran, Tobias Hecker Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
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Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 13, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
