Intimate partner violence: Are the risk factors similar for men and women, and similar to other types of offending?
We studied intimate partner violence (IPV) within a framework of other violent and nonviolent offending, to explore whether the risk factors for offending were similar across the different offense categories, and also for men and women. A comprehensive measure of offending behavior was administered to 184 men and 171 women, together with measures of anger, self‐control, and psychopathic traits. The measure, the nonviolent and violent offending behavior scale (NVOBS), assesses IPV, general violence, and nonviolent offending behavior. Men perpetrated higher levels of general violence and nonviolent offenses than women, whe...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - December 17, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Abigail J.V. Thornton, Nicola Graham‐Kevan, John Archer Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
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Source: Aggressive Behavior - December 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Effects of intrauterine substance and postnatal violence exposure on aggression in children
During the cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and early 1990s, many expressed fears that children with intrauterine cocaine exposure (IUCE) would grow up to be unusually violent. The present study examines the relationship of caregiver reports of school‐age children's aggressive behavior with IUCE and postnatal exposure to violence. Respondents were 140 low‐income, primarily African American children, ages 8–11, and each child's current primary caregiver from a longitudinal study evaluating potential long term sequelae of IUCE. Multiple regression analyses were used to investigate the independent and interactive effects o...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - December 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Olivier J. Barthelemy, Mark A. Richardson, Ruth Rose‐Jacobs, Leah S. Forman, Howard J. Cabral, Deborah A. Frank Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
When are victims unlikely to cooperate with the police?
Data from the National Incident‐Based Reporting System (NIBRS) are used to examine the tendency for victims of physical assault, sexual assault, and robbery to refuse to cooperate with the police (N= 3,856,171). Analyses of physical assaults involving homosexual and heterosexual couples did not support the hypothesis that women attacked by their male partners are less likely to cooperate than victims of other assaults. Analyses of violent offenses more generally showed that victims of violence were more likely to refuse to cooperate if they knew the offender in any way than if the offender was a stranger. In the case o...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - November 25, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Richard B. Felson, Brendan Lantz Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Attribution of human characteristics and bullying involvement in childhood: Distinguishing between targets
This investigation researched the association between the attribution of human characteristics and bullying involvement in children by distinguishing between targets. Study 1 focused on the attribution of human characteristics by bullies, victims, bully/victims, and non‐involved children toward friends and non‐friends. The data from 405 children (M = 10.7 years old) showed that they attributed fewer prosocial and more antisocial human characteristics to non‐friends than to friends. Moreover, boy victims attributed fewer prosocial human characteristics to non‐friends than boy bullies and non‐involved boys did....
Source: Aggressive Behavior - November 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tirza H. J. van Noorden, Gerbert J. T. Haselager, Tessa A. M. Lansu, Antonius H. N. Cillessen, William M. Bukowski Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Intimate partner violence perpetrated by young adult women against men in Ukraine: Examining individual, familial, and cultural factors
We examined the role of financial strain, parent‐to‐parent violence, parent‐to‐child violence, emotional distress, and alcohol use in intimate partner violence perpetrated by young adult women against men in Ukraine. The moderating role of acceptability of intimate partner violence and violence‐related laws and regulations was also examined. Four hundred and six full‐time female university students from four universities in Ukraine participated in the study. We found that emotional distress, parent‐to‐parent, and parent‐to‐child violence mediated the link between financial strain and intimate partner vi...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - November 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Iryna Balabukha, Ambika Krishnakumar, Lutchmie Narine Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
The mental health of male victims and their children affected by legal and administrative partner aggression
The authors recently developed a psychometrically valid measure of legal and administrative (LA) intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization (Hines, Douglas, & Berger, ). The current article explores the impact of actual and threatened LA aggression on the mental health of male physical IPV victims and their children. In the current study, a sample of 611 men who sought help after experiencing physical IPV from their female partners completed a survey assessing the types and extent of IPV that occurred in their relationship, including LA aggression, their own mental health outcomes, and the mental health of their old...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - November 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joshua L. Berger, Emily M. Douglas, Denise A. Hines Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Entitled vengeance: A meta‐analysis relating narcissism to provoked aggression
Narcissism has long been used to predict aggressive or vengeful responses to provocations from others. The strength of this relation can, however, vary widely from study to study. Narcissism and revenge were examined in 84 independent samples (N = 11297), along with the moderating role of sample type (i.e., child/adolescent, prisoner, undergraduate, or general samples), type of narcissism measure used (i.e., Narcissistic Personality Inventory, Psychological Entitlement Scale, Short D3, etc.), the nature of the provocation, and the type of provoked aggression examined. Narcissism was positively related to provoked aggre...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - November 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kyler Rasmussen Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Entitled vengeance: A meta ‐analysis relating narcissism to provoked aggression
Narcissism has long been used to predict aggressive or vengeful responses to provocations from others. The strength of this relation can, however, vary widely from study to study. Narcissism and revenge were examined in 84 independent samples (N = 11297), along with the moderating role of sample type (i.e., child/adolescent, prisoner, undergraduate, or general samples), type of narcissism measure used (i.e., Narcissistic Personality Inventory, Psychological Entitlement Scale, Short D3, etc.), the nature of the provocation, and the type of provoked aggression examined. Narcissism was positively related to provoked aggre...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 31, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kyler Rasmussen Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
State narcissism and aggression: The mediating roles of anger and hostile attributional bias
This study explored the possibility that an increase in state narcissism would foster aggressive responding by increasing anger and hostile attributional bias following unexpected provocation among 162 college students from China. We created a guided‐imagination manipulation to heighten narcissism and investigated its effects on anger, aroused hostile attribution bias, and aggressive responses following a provocation with a 2 (narcissism/neutral manipulation) × 2 (unexpected provocation/positive evaluation condition) between‐subjects design. We found that the manipulation did increase self‐reported state narciss...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 8, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Caina Li, Ying Sun, Man Yee Ho, Jin You, Phillip R. Shaver, Zhenhong Wang Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
An examination of the stability of interpersonal hostile‐dominance and its relationship with psychiatric symptomatology and post‐discharge aggression
This study assessed whether (1) HD is stable over time; (2) the relationship between HD and positive, negative, disorganized, and excited symptoms is consistent over time; and (3) HD is related to aggression post‐discharge. Two hundred psychiatric inpatients were recruited on admission to hospital; 41 were available for follow‐up at 6 months post‐discharge, including 29 men and 12 women, with an age range of 19–63 (M = 39.63 years, SD = 12.69 years). Psychiatric symptomatology and interpersonal style were assessed at recruitment and follow‐up; aggression in the community post‐discharge was measured at f...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tegan Podubinski, Stuart Lee, Yitzchak Hollander, Michael Daffern Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
An examination of the stability of interpersonal hostile ‐dominance and its relationship with psychiatric symptomatology and post‐discharge aggression
This study assessed whether (1) HD is stable over time; (2) the relationship between HD and positive, negative, disorganized, and excited symptoms is consistent over time; and (3) HD is related to aggression post‐discharge. Two hundred psychiatric inpatients were recruited on admission to hospital; 41 were available for follow‐up at 6 months post‐discharge, including 29 men and 12 women, with an age range of 19–63 (M = 39.63 years, SD = 12.69 years). Psychiatric symptomatology and interpersonal style were assessed at recruitment and follow‐up; aggression in the community post‐discharge was measured at f...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 5, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tegan Podubinski, Stuart Lee, Yitzchak Hollander, Michael Daffern Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Positively biased self‐perceptions of peer acceptance and subtypes of aggression in children
This study extended this area of research by examining prospective associations of positively biased self‐perceptions of peer acceptance with overt and relational aggression. In addition, moderating effects of peer rejection were examined to test the “disputed overestimation hypothesis,” which posits that the link between bias and aggression is limited to children who are rejected by their peers. Using a two‐wave longitudinal design, measures of peer‐rated and self‐perceived peer acceptance and peer‐rated overt and relational aggression were obtained for 712 children in 3rd through 5th grades (386 girls and 3...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - October 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rebecca J. Lynch, Janet A. Kistner, Haley F. Stephens, Corinne David‐Ferdon Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Participant roles in peer‐victimization among young children in South Korea: Peer‐, self‐, and teacher‐nominations
This study explored participant roles in aggressive behavior among 95 children aged five to seven years, in a collectivistic culture, South Korea. Using a short‐term longitudinal design, three types of nomination (peer, self, and teacher) were obtained for four participant roles (aggressor, victim, defender‐stop, and defender‐tell) and for four types of aggression (physical, verbal, social exclusion and rumor spreading). Assessments were made of stability of participant roles over time; inter‐rater concordance among informants; discriminability; and relationships with sex, and likeability. Children tended to report...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 11, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Seung‐Ha Lee, Peter K. Smith, Claire P. Monks Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Impact of the ConRed program on different cyberbulling roles
This article presents results from an evaluation of the ConRed cyberbullying intervention program. The program's impacts were separately determined for the different roles within cyberbullying that students can take, i.e., cyber‐victims, cyber‐bullies, cyber‐bully/victims, and bystanders. The ConRed program is a theory‐driven program designed to prevent cyberbullying and improve cyberbullying coping skills. It involves students, teachers, and families. During a 3‐month period, external experts conducted eight training sessions with students, two with teachers and one with families. ConRed was evaluated through a ...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - September 9, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rosario Del Rey, José A. Casas, Rosario Ortega Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
