BACKGROUND In the present era, delinquency in children and adolescents is undoubtedly a difficult and upsetting issue attracting the attention of many experts such as psychologists, sociologists, and criminologists. These experts often try to answer why a number of children and adolescents engage in various crimes such as aggressive and anti-social crimes. They also try to find out how these cr...

Introduction: Obesity and visceral fat accumulation after menopause are associated with insulin resistance and cardiovascular diseases. We investigated the interactive effect of aerobic-resistance training and estrogen replacement therapy on visceral fat, omentin-1 and HOMA-IR in ovariectomized rats. Materials and Methods: Fifty female Wistar rats were ovariectomized (OVX) and divided into 5 gr...

Violence and aggression in inpatient units constitute a major workplace hazard for mental health nurses, who must take account of many considerations when dealing with potentially aggressive or violent patients. This paper discusses some of the problems that arise in connection with violence and aggression in mental health facilities, including incidence and prevalence, risk management processe...

OBJECTIVES To determine if current validated psychometric evaluations could determine a difference in basic behavioural characteristics between surgical and medical specialties. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Two district general hospitals and one University teaching hospital in England, UK. PARTICIPANTS Internal medicine (16) and trauma and orthopaedic (20) consultants. MAIN OUT...

The juvenile correction and rehabilitation center is a place for reforming and rehabilitating juvenile adolescents. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of mindfulness-based training on aggression and empathy of adolescents at the juvenile correction and rehabilitation center in Tehran. The research was a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest and the control group. The st...

This study sought to identify the behavioral characteristics and appropriate treatment of a form of instrumental aggression in companion dogs, herein recognized as avoidance-motivated aggression. In Experiment 1, retrospective data on 92 cases of dangerously aggressive dogs demonstrated the avoidance nature of the aggressive response and its intractability to established counterconditioning tre...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine the mediating role of anger in the relationship between automatic thoughts and physical aggression in adolescents. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 224 adolescents in the 9th grade of 3 different high schools in central Burdur during the 2011-2012 academic year. Participants completed the Aggression Questionnaire and Automatic Thoughts Scale in th...