Not exact matches
Includes reports of
psychological news and publications on such topics as witness issues, victimology, homicide, sexual crime,
aggression, crime reduction, rehabilitation of offenders and PTSD, as well as research from other disciplines that may be relevant (
e.g., forensic linguistics, psychiatry, criminology).
Exemplary discoveries Our findings show that aggressive dispositions were moderately stable from kindergarten to grade 6 (
e.g.,.56), whereas anxious - withdrawn behaviour was not stable until grades 2 -LRB-.36) and 3 -LRB-.51).3, 4 The percentages of children in a community sample (n = 2775) that could be classified into distinct risk groups were: 15 % aggressive; 12 % anxious - withdrawn, and 8.5 % aggressive - withdrawn (comorbid).5 Predictive analyses showed that aggressive children who exceeded a risk criterion in kindergarten exhibited increases in
psychological and school maladjustment two years later.6 Anxious - withdrawn dispositions predicted early and later increases in internalizing problems.5 Overall, the findings corroborate the premise that
aggression and anxious - withdrawal are risks for later maladjustment.
Multi - method / multi-informant constructs were formed for parent / family risk factors, adolescent psychopathology (
e.g. suicide - attempt history, mother -, father -, teacher - and self - reported physical
aggression) and young adulthood relational distress (jealousy and low relationship satisfaction) and maladaptive relationship behavior (observed, self - and partner - reported physical and
psychological aggression toward a partner, partner - reported injury, official domestic violence arrest records and relationship instability).
To examine the unique relation of each form of
aggression and victimization (
e.g., direct
aggression after controlling for indirect
aggression, and indirect
aggression after controlling for direct
aggression) to the broad categories of
psychological difficulties measured by the SDQ, we followed Card et al. -LRB-[2008]-RRB- in computing semipartial correlations (sr).