Contrary to boys, pathological gaming among adolescent girls actually predicted a decrease in self -
reported physical aggression.
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).
Couple Premarital Behavior and Dynamics We examined 14 behaviors and dynamics related to the focal relationship as predictors of marital quality: age at marriage, length of relationship before marriage, whether the couple had a child or were pregnant together before marriage, whether they began their relationship with hooking up, whether the respondent had sexual relations with someone else while dating his / her future spouse or knew that his / her partner had, whether the respondent
reported any physical aggression in the relationship before marriage, whether the couple cohabited before making a mutual commitment to marry, the degree to which the respondent reported sliding into living together vs. deciding to do so, whether the respondent perceived that he or she was more or less committed than the partner before marriage, whether the couple received premarital education, and whether the couple had a wedding, as well as how many people attended the wedding.
In addition, over 650 staff
reported physical aggression including pushing and shoving (83 %), the use of fists (48 %), or legs (42 %).
Mothers who are more inclined to notice or
report the physical aggressions of their children may be more inclined to report other problems that they have, such as smoking, family dysfunction, and negative reactions to their child.
Specifically, older age at marriage, having a child or being pregnant together, beginning the relationship with hooking up, reporting that one's partner had sexual relations with someone else,
reporting any physical aggression while dating, living together before reaching a mutual commitment to marriage, and the respondent's perception that he / she was more committed to the relationship than the partner were each associated with lower marital quality.
Not exact matches
Nearly seven in ten children
reported psychologically damaging experiences of
physical and verbal abuse and
aggression at school.
23.9 percent of these men
reported perpetrating
physical violence, 46.5 percent sexual violence and 62.4 percent psychological
aggression against an intimate partner in the year before the study;
Females
reported engaging in
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This
report concludes that «six educationally relevant disparities» — vision problems, asthma, teen pregnancy,
aggression and violence,
physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and concentration problems — have negative academic outcomes for minority students in urban settings.
From U.S. and Canadian government
reports, as well as many peer - reviewed studies — not marketing company surveys — we know that in terms of actual behaviour between intimate partners, women are as likely — or more likely in younger cohorts — to initiate mild to moderate
physical aggression than men (up to and including knifing).
In 2005, the final
report of the Victorian Taskforce on Violence in Nursing referenced research that found as many as 95 per cent of nurse respondents had experienced repeated episodes of
aggression in the past year, with 80 per cent
reporting multiple episodes of
physical aggression.
In addition, cohabiting couples
reported more
physical aggression than married couples.
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 group.61
Effects were more consistent on
physical abuse, however, with mothers in the treatment group
reporting fewer instances of very serious
physical abuse at one year and fewer instances of serious abuse at two years.54 In Alaska, the HFA program was associated with less psychological
aggression, but it had no effects for neglect or severe abusive behaviors.55 Similarly, in the San Diego evaluation of HFA, home - visited mothers
reported less use of psychological
aggression at twenty - four and thirty - six months.56 Early Start also
reported small effects in terms of lowering rates of severe
physical abuse.57
Maternal
reports of CP, children's aggressive behaviors at 3 and 5 years of age, and a host of key demographic features and potential confounding factors, including maternal child
physical maltreatment, psychological maltreatment, and neglect, intimate partner
aggression victimization, stress, depression, substance use, and consideration of abortion, were assessed.
Having nightmares as a result of fear or threat of
physical aggression was
reported by 30 %.
Forty percent of the subjects
reported being off work as a result of
physical aggression toward them by a client: 15 %
reported being off work once, 10 % twice, 10 % three times, and 5 % eight times.
For example, after starting to cohabit, partners
reported more negative communication, lower satisfaction, and more
physical aggression over time.
Self -
reported victimization (controlling behaviors and
physical and sexual
aggression) by a partner in the past year.
If you look at the longitudinal data, you do see a slight rise in
reports of
physical aggression (but still, generally, very low levels), but levels do not increase over time after couples start cohabiting.
Again, when you include relevant control variables (e.g., relationship length, presence of children, etc.), there are no differences in
reports of
physical aggression between non-cohabiting daters and cohabiting daters.
As expected girls were somewhat more likely to
report being the perpetrator of
physical aggression and boys were somewhat more likely to endorse the acceptance of
aggression and dysfunctional sexual attitudes.
Mothers were asked to rate the
physical aggression of their twins by
reporting behavior such as hitting, biting, kicking and fighting at the ages of 20, 32 and 50 months.
Five programs showed favorable effects in some aspect of child maltreatment reduction: (1) Child FIRST showed a favorable effect on family involvement with child protective services53; (2) Early Start on 2 measures, including the percentage who went to the hospital for accident, injury, or accidental poisoning, and parents»
report of severe or very severe
physical assault25, 26; (3) EHS had a favorable effect on
physical punishment at 36 months66; (4) HFA showed 14 favorable impacts on measures of parenting behaviors, such as corporal punishment, self -
reported serious
physical abuse, and
aggression, 30,50,67 — 69 and 1 measure of the biological mother as a confirmed subject of sexual abuse
report by the child's seventh birthday50; and (5) NFP had favorable effects on 7 measures, including health care encounters for injuries or ingestions and substantiated abuse or neglect 15 years after program enrollment.34, 35,42,70,71 One program, Healthy Steps, showed no effect on 1 measure in this domain.65
Sixth - graders in schools that implemented the Second Step middle school program were 42 percent less likely to
report engaging in
physical aggression compared to sixth - graders in schools that didn't implement the program.
However, program completers did
report significant decreases on average in
physical, emotional, and verbal
aggression measures immediately following the intervention, as well as decreases in violence supportive attitudes.
Those who
reported having experienced
physical aggression in their relationship prior to marriage
reported lower marital quality later on.
The increase in
physical aggression that we described corresponds to the increase
reported by observational studies on small samples, 63,64 and the predictors correspond to those observed in studies with older children in which
aggression was assessed by other means than mother
reports.12, 16,65
We studied a mixed population of psychiatric outpatients and healthy volunteers in order to examine the gene - environment interaction effect of MAOA genotype and early trauma on the increased risk for self -
reported levels of
physical aggression during adulthood.
As expected,
physical aggression scores were higher among males and participants
reporting exposure to early traumatic life events.
In conclusion, despite its limitations, this study supports and extends the findings of previous
reports showing that the MAOA polymorphism in combination with early experience modulates individual proclivity to later - life
physical aggression.
Boys
reported significantly higher levels of
physical victimization,
physical aggression, and relational
aggression than girls.
Siblings
reported feeling victimised through
physical violence, verbal
aggression and manipulative and controlling behaviour.
Sex differences in frequency and level of
physical aggression have been consistently
reported.
Higher levels of
physical aggression for boys have been
reported by mothers from 17 months of age.
The SOCMI curriculum led to significant reductions in female partners»
reports of
physical aggression at follow - up, but not to changes in self -
reported aggression.
This program was shown to significantly reduce
reports of
physical aggression and harmful alcohol consumption, but had no significant effect on
reports of psychological
aggression.
Aggression was measured using reliable observer and teacher reports of physical and relational aggression
Aggression was measured using reliable observer and teacher
reports of
physical and relational
aggression aggression subscales.
Other studies have related an increase in psychopathic characteristics to parental psychological
aggression and inconsistency [60], or to poor supervision,
physical punishment, and poor parent - child communication [61], or to maternal
reports of harsh parenting at age 4 [62].
Prisoners were recorded as having exhibited violent behavior during their incarceration if there were disciplinary
reports of
physical aggression or assault against other inmates or prison officers while in prison.
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.
Gender also influenced self -
reported physically aggressive behavior across waves, with boys (M = 2.14, SD =.76) showing more
physical aggression than girls (M = 1.61, SD =.62), t (536) = 7.62, p <.001.
Similar to these studies, we found no support for the reciprocal relation
reported by Slater et al. (2003), meaning that individual levels of
physical aggression did not predict future time spent on violent games.
Siblings
reported feeling victimised by aggressive acts from their ADHD brothers through overt acts of
physical violence, verbal
aggression, and manipulation and control.
Therefore, in line with previous studies on
aggression (e.g., Huesmann and Taylor 2006) we focused on self -
reported forms of
physical aggression that pose a significant risk of injury to victims.
Adolescents who
reported low levels of exposure to historical parental
aggression (aggregated across types) were much less likely to exhibit all types of adolescent - to - parent violence (3.2 %
physical, 29.0 % property damage, 38.7 % verbal) relative to those who
reported medium or high total levels of exposure (22 %
physical, 74.2 % property damage, 77.4 % verbal)(Margolin and Baucom 2014).
DP women
reported frequencies of
physical aggression similar to DNP women, but less male verbal
aggression than DNP women.
Maternal
report of types of conduct problems in a high - risk sample of 228 boys and 80 girls (ages 4 — 18) were examined, using a version of the Child Behavior Checklist, expanded to include a range of covert and overt antisocial items (stealing, lying,
physical aggression, relational
aggression, substance use, and impulsivity).