Sentences with phrase «index of aggressive behavior»

Total score was used as a global index of aggressive behavior.

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Less sensitivity to others» distress as indexed by attentional avoidance of fearful faces has been suggested to facilitate a lack of inhibition of aggressive behaviors.

Building on the assumption that elevated levels of negative emotions, diminished levels of happiness, and elevated emotional variability are all indices of emotion dysregulation, the results add to a growing body of evidence showing that emotion dysregulation predicts symptoms of anxiety, depression and aggressive behavior in children and adolescents (Beauchaine et al. 2007; Bosquet and Egeland 2006; Yap et al. 2008).