Research on Youth Violence Risk/Needs Assessments
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Review of research on child maltreatment and violence in youth.
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Research on violent television and films, video games, and music reveals unequivocal evidence that media violence increases the likelihood of aggressive and violent behavior in both immediate and long-term contexts. The effects appear larger for milder than for more severe forms of aggression, but the effects on severe forms of violence are also substantial (r = .13 to .32) when compared with e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Psychology & Clinical Psychiatry
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2373-6445
DOI: 10.15406/jpcpy.2015.03.00115