Sentences with phrase «less aggressive behaviour»

Having the dogs socialize results in encouraging less aggressive behaviour in the dogs, she says.

For instance, we know that familiar birds are more likely to cooperate in fending off predators, and it may also reduce the amount of energy expended on competitive interactions, if individuals display less aggressive behaviour towards familiar neighbours.»

Fish reared in large groups showed more submissive and less aggressive behaviour to big fish in the group, social behaviour which greatly enhances the survival chances of smaller fish.»

For example, whilst in typically developing children good empathic and social cognitive skills are associated with less aggressive behaviours (Mayberry and Espelage 2006), theory of mind or cognitive aspects of empathy are less developed in children with ASD (Pouw et al. 2013).

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Shuddering behaviour may also mediate female aggressive behaviour, with males that generate long shudders less likely to be cannibalised after copulation.

IO: The key findings were that, as we predicted, the students with better relationships (self - reported and teacher - reported) versus those with worse relationships were more prosocial and they were also less aggressive and less oppositional, or showed less oppositional behaviour.

Students with a positive relationship with their teachers showed 18 per cent more prosocial behaviour towards their peers and were up to 38 per cent less likely to be aggressive towards their peers, compared to pupils who felt ambivalent or negative toward their teacher.

This way they won't feel as if they have to compete, and their behaviour while chewing will be less aggressive.

If so, that provides respondents with a clear incentive to engage in aggressive behaviours to bolster their position that the employment relationship is no longer viable (if they do so, reinstatement is less likely to be ordered when sought).

The reductions in aggressive behaviour reported here could be attributable to change in the school's management of child behaviour or an increase in extracurricular activities which may, themselves, have preventive effects.4 None the less, the effects of reducing media exposure and its effect in combination with other effective school based programmes5, 6 merit additional studies.

Eron et al concluded that without early family treatment, aggressive behaviour in children «crystallises» by the age of 8, making future learning and behavioural problems less responsive to treatment and more likely to become chronic.5 Yet recent projections suggest that fewer than 10 % of young children who need treatment for conduct problems ever receive it, 6 and an even smaller percentage receive empirically validated treatments.

Taylor et al argue that the important facets of positive parenting are undermined by the presence of certain socioeconomic conditions, in particular that unemployment, low income, and lack of social support is associated with more punitive and coercive discipline, more rejecting, less warm behaviours, and more aggressive parenting strategies affecting the behavioural, educational, and social development of children.

In a randomized trial with 246 children in 20 Head Start classrooms, children exposed to the PATHS program had higher emotion knowledge skills and were rated as more socially competent and less socially withdrawn at the end of the school year.26 When PATHS was implemented along with a language and literacy curriculum in a separate study in 44 Head Start classrooms, significant reductions in children's aggressive behaviour were also observed.27

Students who participated in social information processing showed less aggressive and disruptive behaviour after treatment then students who did not receive the programme.

Child behaviour problems mediated parental outcomes, with less adaptation reported by parents of children who displayed aggressive behaviour.