Sentences with phrase «with higher levels of aggression»

The tendency for aggressive children to idealize and to inflate ratings of competence and relationship quality was associated with higher levels of aggression.

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

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.

Some of these studies involved large representative samples from the United States; 2 some studies controlled for potential confounders, such as parental stress3 and socioeconomic status; 4 and some studies examined the potential of parental reasoning to moderate the association between physical punishment and child aggression.5 Virtually without exception, these studies found that physical punishment was associated with higher levels of aggression against parents, siblings, peers and spouses.

Researchers found that wild colonies with high levels of aggression were also bolder in their foraging efforts.

Not exact matches

«In addition, there are some recent papers implicating increased levels of this hormone in people with personality disorders that lead to higher levels of aggression.»

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

These conditions can interfere with children's abilities to control their own behavior, resulting in higher levels of aggression in early and middle childhood.

Also in the mix is the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, higher levels of which are associated with aggression.

People who struggle with body weight and high blood sugar levels often use artificial sweeteners such as aspartame but it is a very bad idea as according to Carly Harrill, «There are 92 reported side effects of ASPARTAME (Equal, NutraSweet), including: birth defects, diabetes, arthritis, severe PMS, migraines, Alzheimer's disease, aggression, severe depression, and suicidal tendencies.

In another study with chimpanzees, increased levels of aggression was seen during times when testosterone levels were high (Muller et al. 2004).

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.

The «Temperament Correct» pit bull: seeks out human interaction; is responsive, biddable and eager to please; may be genetically predisposed to aggression towards other dogs or animals; is appropriately submissive; is well balanced and optimistic; enjoys handling; presents good eye contact; is able to be calm in the presence of other dogs on leash or — if initially leash reactive - can learn how to tolerate their presence; is willing to connect with handler during high arousal; can be handled safely even in times of high arousal; accepts a reasonable amount of confinement; drops arousal levels quickly when removed from a stressful situation; is social with people of all types; is responsive and good natured; is never aggressive towards humans.

In guide dogs specifically, success is associated with high levels of obedience and trainability and low levels of reactivity, hyperactivity, aggression, distraction, and anxious behaviors (e.g., barking)(24, 26, 29, 32, 35).

When the level of aggression is at the highest level at the dog, better don't try to control it with the whistling.

This relatively high level of aggression in the French Bulldog is somewhat surprising in light of the finding that owners of French Bulldogs were influenced to buy their breed by a perception that they were a «good companion breed» and «good with children» [5], with their temperament described as a «deeply affectionate» in their UK breed standard [1].

Shadow of War has made a significant improvement in this area as there are three balanced difficulty levels including easy, normal and nemesis with the major differences being that the easy difficulty does not fully integrate the nemesis system combined with less aggression from enemy A.I. and less damage received resulting in a higher probability of victory during combat; therefore producing the best difficulty level for any player who wants to focus on the story.

They found that the whistles keep dolphins in contact with one another and to coordinate hunts, while the burst - pulse sounds are made to keep aggression levels in check during times of high excitement.

Therefore, it is highly possible that the children of mothers with PDS at four weeks after delivery display higher levels of aggression during early infancy.

RESULTS: Frequent use of CP (ie, mother's use of spanking more than twice in the previous month) when the child was 3 years of age was associated with increased risk for higher levels of child aggression when the child was 5 years of age (adjusted odds ratio: 1.49 [95 % confidence interval: 1.2 — 1.8]; P <.0001), even with controlling for the child's level of aggression at age 3 and the aforementioned potential confounding factors and key demographic features.

Results Adolescents maltreated early in life were absent from school more than 1.5 as many days, were less likely to anticipate attending college compared with nonmaltreated adolescents, and had levels of aggression, anxiety / depression, dissociation, posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, social problems, thought problems, and social withdrawal that were on average more than three quarters of an SD higher than those of their nonmaltreated counterparts.

A divorce with a medium to high level of custody conflict is one where parents, or one of the parents, demonstrate an physical aggression or threats of physical aggression and have difficulty communicating or lack of communication about the care of the minor children.

behavior reported higher levels of PDS and had children with higher levels of infantile aggression.

Conclusion: In this study, it was revealed that the age of onset for substance use was younger in substance users with comorbid ADHD and that the level of aggression and craving was higher again in this group.

Nurse - visited children born to mothers with low levels of psychologic resources had higher arithmetic achievement test scores (score of 88.61 vs 85.42) and expressed less aggression (score of 98.58 vs 101.10) and incoherence (score of 20.90 vs 29.84) in response to story stems.

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).

On social - emotional measures, foster children in the NSCAW study tended to have more compromised functioning than would be expected from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster children are more likely than nonfoster care children to have insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster children postulate that a majority have mental health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression, poorer social skills, lower adaptive functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high levels of mental health service utilization among foster children47 due to both greater mental health needs and greater access to services.

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

Best predictors before or at birth of the high physical aggression trajectory group, controlling for the levels of the other risk factors, were having young siblings (odds ratio [OR]: 4.00; confidence interval [CI]: 2.2 — 7.4), mothers with high levels of antisocial behavior before the end of high school (OR: 3.1; CI: 1.1 — 8.6), mothers who started having children early (OR: 3.1; CI: 1.4 — 6.8), families with low income (OR: 2.6; CI: 1.3 — 5.2), and mothers who smoked during pregnancy (OR: 2.2; CI: 1.1 — 4.1).

Children who have conduct disorder may inherit decreased baseline autonomic nervous system activity, requiring greater stimulation to achieve optimal arousal.9 — 11 This hereditary factor may account for the high level of sensation - seeking activity associated with conduct disorder.10 Current research focuses on defining neurotransmitters that play a role in aggression, with serotonin most strongly implicated.11

As anticipated, children with higher levels of depressive symptoms, either alone or in combination with aggression, demonstrated more negative conceptions of both self and peers than did nonsymptomatic children.

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

In addition, pretest harsh parenting scores predicted children's outcomes, suggesting that families with relatively higher initial levels of parental psychological aggression and corporal punishment had more robust child outcomes following completion of the program.

Consistent with the theory, the results indicated that interparental aggression predicted greater cortisol reactivity over a 1 - year period for children who exhibited high levels of temperamental inhibition and vigilance.

On the other hand, families who are not successfully able to resolve conflicts experience high levels of aggression, they frequently disagree with one another, compete with one another, generate feelings of jealousy and resentment, all due to the fact that they feel neglected or rejected.

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

They found that couples in which the husband but not the wife engaged in heavy drinking were characterized by high levels of verbal aggression reported by husbands, along with low levels of marital adjustment and high levels of depression reported by wives (Roberts & Leonard, 1998).

High childhood aggression associated with low educational level and occupational status suggesting an early beginning negative tracking of aggressive behavior.

Moreover, the magnitude of this increase was greater when these students were in classrooms with higher levels of teacher - rated aggression.

A disciplinary strategy labeled as «power - assertive,» characterized by corporal and psychological aggression, in combination with high levels of supervision and punishment was positively related to adolescent - to - parent violence (Ibabe and Bentler 2016).

Consistent with this idea, low levels of mothers» physical aggression (spanking) have been found to be related to child problem behavior, while for fathers only high levels of physical aggression predicted more child problem behavior (Mackenzie et al. 2013).

Studies which compare the stress scores between parents of children with ASD contrasted with parents of children with other disability, offer as explanation for the higher levels of stress in parents of children with ASD, differences in the behavior problems, aggression, obsessive - compulsive rituals, sleep problems, or the externalizing aspects which have major influence on the family.

In general, girls with ADHD had higher levels of negative relationship features — including conflict and relational aggression — than did comparison girls, but levels of positive relationship features did not differ across subgroups.

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 [103].

To be specific, profiles based on these variables were analyzed in children with high levels of proactive versus reactive aggression.

Particularly, (1) we expected a positive association between the owners» supportiveness and warmth and the dogs» proximity seeking with the owner, since a supportive and warm parenting style has been associated with more secure attachment in children; (2) we expected a positive association between the owners» warmth and the dogs» willingness to approach the experimenter in a friendly manner, based on the facilitating effect of warm parenting on the children's positive interactions with peers; and (3) we expected a positive association between the owners» level of control and higher aggression in the dogs, as a possible analogy of the effect of an authoritarian and harsh parenting on relational aggression in children (Kawabata et al., 2011).

Finally, children with persistently high levels of psychopathic traits exhibited higher levels of conduct problems and proactive aggression at follow - up than those with unstable or stable low psychopathic traits.

Nevertheless, differential profiles of subjects with high levels of proactive versus reactive aggression were not observed.