Sentences with phrase «show high levels of aggression»

Violent video games, particularly «first person shooter» games, are known to raise levels of aggression in boys and are particularly counterproductive for boys who already show high levels of aggression.

Not exact matches

And he showed that when success depends on fair play, higher testosterone levels encourage cooperation instead of aggression.

«Findings from both studies indicate that children who showed higher levels of conduct problems — that is, aggression, fighting, stealing from peers — were more likely to be economically left leaning and distrustful of the political system as adults,» says study author Gary J. Lewis of Royal Holloway, University of London.

«Verbal aggression by patients linked with higher level of anger among mental health nurses than physical advances, new research shows.»

A new study shows that becoming a father leads to a sharp decline in testosterone, suggesting that although high levels of the hormone may help men win a mate, testosterone - fueled traits such as aggression and competition are less useful when it comes to raising children.

The study also showed a correlation between a dog's ability to control pack direction and other specific attributes, mainly high levels of trainability, aggression, and willingness to submit to human trainers.

Our study supports the notion reported by Glickman (2000) that personality factors such as aggression toward people and fearfulness or agitation in response to strangers or environmental changes were associated with an increased risk of GDV, whereas a «happy» and easy going temperament, submission to other dogs or people, high activity level, and attending dog shows decreased the risk of GDV.

Meghan Herron's study in the same year, showed that all punishment was associated with higher levels of aggression and fear, even what many of us might consider mild aversives like «staring at a dog» or making a growling noise at him.

Children who have experienced higher levels of stress in their preschool years show more aggression and anxiety and are less socially competent than those who have experienced less stress.

It was also found that individuals with extremely high levels of self - esteem and narcissism show high tendencies to express anger and aggression (Baumeister et al., 2000).

Specifically, negative emotional reactivity has been found to predict both internalizing problems (e.g., anxiety, depression) and externalizing problems (e.g., aggression, rule - breaking).1 Fearfulness predicts internalizing problems, and self - regulation difficulties predict externalizing problems.1 The large literature on parenting2 generally shows that high levels of warm and firm parenting are associated with positive child development.4

Results clearly show that girls» high level of antisocial behavior before the end of high school tends to be followed by their children's high levels of physical aggression in early childhood.

Smoking during pregnancy has been shown to predict antisocial behavior during later childhood and adolescence.36 — 40 Our results show that it predicts high levels of physical aggression in infancy after having controlled for many of the confounding variables that could explain the association, eg, antisocial behavior, low education, postpartum depression, and early parenthood.

Children who show high levels of physical aggression during the elementary school years are at greatest risk of physical violence during adolescence and adulthood.1 Much research has been done on risk factors for high levels of aggression in school - aged children and in adolescents.

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.5High 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.5high PA from early childhood to adolescence.5 - 9

The analysis showed males with higher levels of aggression at first grade, but there were increasing and significant effects at sixth grade.

Both cross-sectional and longitudinal data show that high levels of 40 developmental assets are associated with lower levels of aggression and violence.

High levels of CU traits have, however, been shown to be a risk factor for the greater use of aggression and antisocial behaviours [5]--[7].

Results show that the higher the CU raw scores, the higher the levels of CAS - total aggression and relational aggression, the higher the levels of CBCL withdrawn, attention, aggressive, externalizing and total scores, the higher the probability of comorbid disorders and use of services, and the lower the level of CGAS functional impairment.

The findings show that the girls demonstrated higher levels of relational aggression that boys and that relational aggressive children demonstrated high levels of language skill and social competence.

Second, children who tend to respond aggressively may show even higher levels of aggression when they encounter stressful events.