Sentences with phrase «show aggressive behaviour»

It is common for a new hamster to bite or show aggressive behaviour towards you in the early stages of handling.

But ones that live on their own and then are introduced to another hamster ca be defensive and show aggressive behaviour.

The one main problem with this is that a hamster may start to show aggressive behaviour towards its owners due to being unhappy.

While low - ranked wolves often defended their food against the high - ranked partner and showed aggressive behaviour as often as higher - ranked wolves, this was different in dogs.

Preventing your dog getting access to the front door can also be useful if he shows aggressive behaviour towards the person delivering the post!

Not exact matches

Overall, however, neither wolves nor dogs showed a lot of aggressive behaviour.

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.»

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.

Being «on track» in this domain equates to having good concentration, helping other children and «almost never showing aggressive, anxious or impulsive behaviour».

Note: If your cat shows fearful behaviour and runs away, or becomes aggressive, go back to the previous introduction steps at a slower pace.

A 2008 study in the Journal of Applied Animal Behaviour showed that Rottweilers were only average among the breeds that bit their owners but were shown to be more aggressive to strangers.

However, the same studies did not show decrease in aggressive behaviours or resource guarding.

Recent studies have shown that physical punishment can actually contribute to the development of fearful or aggressive behaviour.

Another key insight to add is that, Maintaining short nails is also for their mental health; studies have shown that being unable to run and play properly (due to the uncomfortable state of their nails) can lead to aggressive behaviour and depression in dogs.

«The studies showing that high temperature increases violence crime in the US and other wealthy societies seems to suggest that physiological responses are important, too, with very short - run exposure to heat contributing to more aggressive and violent behaviour,» said Marshall Burke, also of Berkeley.

At 1 year, the preventive programme led to improved outcomes for child social cognition and reading (effect sizes 0.23 to 0.54, p ≤ 0.04); child peer relations and social competence (effect sizes 0.27 to 0.28, p < 0.02); parenting behaviour (effect sizes 0.23 to 0.32, p ≤ 0.03); and child aggressive and disruptive behaviour (effect sizes 0.26 to 0.31, p ≤ 0.02) compared with no intervention; the effect sizes are shown for outcomes with ≥ 80 % follow up.

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.

A consistent relationship has also been shown with delayed reading age, below average scores on intelligence and achievement tests, conduct disorder of childhood and parental aggressive behaviour.»

Direct observation in the home shows that much aggressive behaviour in children is influenced by the way parents behave towards them.

Well over half of future recidivist delinquents can be predicted at age 7 from the child's aggressive behaviour together with the family's ineffective child rearing practices.5 On the other hand, where protective factors exist, the outcome can be good: figure 1) shows the school report of the 9 year old Winston Churchill, whose conduct was «exceedingly bad.»

Assessment results of the 2 - year - long ENABLE project show that pupils who have taken part in the ENABLE Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) training are more likely to report aggressive behaviour.

The main results showed that deliberate self - harm among girls, as well as conduct problems, hyperactivity, aggressive behaviour, and the use of alcohol, were more strongly associated with poor emotional relations to their parents than with poor emotional relations to friends.

Children who have disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure have been shown to be vulnerable to stress, have problems with regulation and control of negative emotions, and display oppositional, hostile - aggressive behaviours, and coercive styles of interaction.2, 3 They may exhibit low self - esteem, internalizing and externalizing problems in the early school years, poor peer interactions, unusual or bizarre behaviour in the classroom, high teacher ratings of dissociative behaviour and internalizing symptoms in middle childhood, high levels of teacher - rated social and behavioural difficulties in class, low mathematics attainment, and impaired formal operational skills.3 They may show high levels of overall psychopathology at 17 years.3 Disorganized attachment with a primary attachment figure is over-represented in groups of children with clinical problems and those who are victims of maltreatment.1, 2,3 A majority of children with early disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure during infancy go on to develop significant social and emotional maladjustment and psychopathology.3, 4 Thus, an attachment - based intervention should focus on preventing and / or reducing disorganized attachment.

Most children will show physically aggressive behaviour occasionally, and then learn other means of expressing emotions and solving conflicts.

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

24 of the effective programmes showed significant improvements in problem behaviours, including drug and alcohol use, school misbehaviour, aggressive behaviour, violence, truancy, high - risk sexual behaviour and smoking