Our study has also provided evidence that pathological gaming causes an increase in
physical aggression among adolescent boys.
The present study is the first to address these issues by longitudinally examining the causal relations between pathological gaming, excessive gaming, and
physical aggression among 540 adolescent gamers.
The finding that pathological gaming only affects
physical aggression among boys does not diminish its importance because adolescent boys are generally the most devoted group of violent game players and most susceptible to pathological involvement.
Furthermore, higher levels of pathological gaming, regardless of violent content, predicted an increase in
physical aggression among boys.
This study used a modified version of the Conflict Tactic Scale (Straus, 1990) to measure the expression of verbal and
physical aggression among 572 college students (395 females and 177 males) involved in dating relationships over the previous year.
Yet, little is known about the longitudinal relationship between drug use, particularly alcohol use, and
physical aggression among minority youth.
A 2015 meta - analysis of twenty - two studies from seven countries found that the consumption of pornography was significantly associated with increases in verbal and
physical aggression among males and females alike.
Effects of Alcohol on Trajectories of
Physical Aggression Among Urban Youth: An Application of Latent Trajectory Modeling.
Not exact matches
Subsequent prospective studies yielded similar results, whether they controlled for parental age, child age, race and family structure; 12 poverty, child age, emotional support, cognitive stimulation, sex, race and the interactions
among these variables; 13 or other factors.14 — 17 These studies provide the strongest evidence available that
physical punishment is a risk factor for child
aggression and antisocial behaviour.
«Verbal
aggression by patients linked with higher level of anger
among mental health nurses than
physical advances, new research shows.»
Among the prevention subgroup (first - time mothers recruited prenatally), minor physical aggression was reported in 70 percent of control families and 51 percent of program families.60 In Healthy Families Alaska, fewer incidents of mild physical abuse were reported among families in the treatment gro
Among the prevention subgroup (first - time mothers recruited prenatally), minor
physical aggression was reported in 70 percent of control families and 51 percent of program families.60 In Healthy Families Alaska, fewer incidents of mild
physical abuse were reported
among families in the treatment gro
among families in the treatment group.61
Physical aggression occurs
among siblings in the majority of families (i.e., 70 % of families).
Results at 12 - year follow - up indicated that there were significant reductions in
physical aggression observed
among girls in the intervention group at 2 years old and intervention group children of high - psychological - resource mothers at 6 and 12 years old.
Mediation analyses suggest that reductions in
physical aggression yield increased verbal ability
among girls.
As expected,
physical aggression scores were higher
among males and participants reporting exposure to early traumatic life events.
Because, in our sample
physical aggression scores were indistinguishable
among the three female genotypes, we were not able to draw conclusions about the status of heterozygous female subjects.
High frequency of
physical aggression (PA) is the central feature of severe conduct disorder1 and is associated with a wide range of social, mental, and
physical health problems.2 - 4 The origin of PA problems can be traced back to early childhood, and studies have specifically shown that maternal characteristics, especially low levels of education, are
among the best predictors of high PA from early childhood to adolescence.5 - 9
This study found that the relationship between
physical aggression and depressive symptoms is stronger
among adolescent girls than adolescent boys.
The present study examined the effects of alcohol and substance use at age 11 on trajectories of
physical aggression over time (ages 12 — 14)
among urban adolescents from Chicago, IL.
Disruptive behavior disorders are
among the easiest to identify of all coexisting conditions because they involve behaviors that are readily seen such as temper tantrums,
physical aggression such as attacking other children, excessive argumentativeness, stealing, and other forms of defiance or resistance to authority.
Disruptive behavior disorders are
among the easiest to identify of all coexisting conditions because they involve behaviors that are readily seen such as temper tantrums,
physical aggression such as attacking other children, excessive argumentativeness,
However,
physical aggression against partners
among teens is a very different phenomenon than battering.
Among male gamers, higher levels of pathological gaming predicted an increase in
physical aggression 6 months later (β =.13, B =.20, SE =.084, p =.02).
Among adolescents, deficits in self - control, lack of reflection and / or insensitivity to consequences can lead to unprovoked and disproportionate acts of
physical aggression due to decreased functioning of behavioral inhibition (Atkins and Stoff 1993).
Our focus on
physical aggression also limits our understanding of the development of other types of aggressive behavior that were not analyzed in the current study, such as social and relational
aggression, which may be more prominent
among adolescent girls.
Other limitations of our study include the reliance on self - report measures for
physical aggression and pathological gaming, both of which are much more common
among adolescent boys.
Therefore, pathological involvement
among boys was likely to be with violent games, which may have aggravated the effect on
physical aggression.
However,
among female gamers, higher levels of pathological gaming predicted an unexpected decrease in
physical aggression 6 months later (β = −.24, B = −.35, SE =.115, p <.01).
Contrary to boys, pathological gaming
among adolescent girls actually predicted a decrease in self - reported
physical aggression.
Research on aggressive behavior in children and adolescents originally addressed direct,
physical forms of
aggression, documenting that these were more common
among boys than
among girls (e.g., Hyde [1984]-RRB-.
It has been argued that
physical aggression may be used to demonstrate dominance
among a new set of peers in middle school by boys in particular (Pellegrini and Bartini 2000; Pellegrini and Long 2002).
This paper examines whether links with depressed mood differ
among three subtypes of antisocial behavior: oppositionality,
physical aggression and delinquency.
Lower levels of synchrony were found during early interactions
among parent - child dyads with children who had higher levels of parent - rated physical aggression [101] and infant irritability [60]; (2) Among pre-term infants, authors found lower coherence during interactions led by the infants [102], less mother and infant responsivity [81] and shorter episodes of gaze synchrony [
among parent - child dyads with children who had higher levels of parent - rated
physical aggression [101] and infant irritability [60]; (2)
Among pre-term infants, authors found lower coherence during interactions led by the infants [102], less mother and infant responsivity [81] and shorter episodes of gaze synchrony [
Among pre-term infants, authors found lower coherence during interactions led by the infants [102], less mother and infant responsivity [81] and shorter episodes of gaze synchrony [103].