Adolescence can be a specifically turbulent as well as a dynamic period of one’s life. It has been identified as a period in which young people develop abstract thinking abilities, become more aware of their sexuality, develop a clearer sense of psychological identity and increase their independence from parents. G. Stanly Hall denoted this period as one of “Storm and Stress” and, according to ...

Dyadic influences among the diverse forms of aggression in dating relationships of adolescents and young adults have been reported in various studies. The goal of this research was to extend a dyadic model of physical aggression against partners to sexual aggression against partners. An urban sample of 4,052 adolescents and young adults of both genders, between 16 and 26 years old, was used. Th...

Understanding the underpinnings of behavioural disturbances following brain injury is of considerable importance, but little at present is known about the relationships between different types of behavioural disturbances. Here, we take a novel approach to this issue by using confirmatory factor analysis to elucidate the architecture of verbal aggression, physical aggression and inappropriate se...

AIMS The goal of the present study was to quantify the perceived aggression towards nurses working in two Italian health care institutions and to verify the hypothesis of an association between the characteristics of aggressors and the type of aggression. BACKGROUND Violence and aggressiveness, particularly aimed at nurses, are a common, but inadequately investigated phenomenon in Italian hea...

Existing research shows that many university students will be the victims of interpersonal violence at some point during their college experience. Often, these acts occur between individuals that not only know one another, but are romantically involved. With that in mind, the present study had two specific goals. The primary goal was to examine the prevalence of verbal, physical, sexual victimi...

The links between narcissism and aggression have been documented in various studies. Researchers have distinguished between grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism and suggested that grandiose narcissism may predict aggression. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between vulnerable narcissism and aggression in sample groups of Japanese undergraduate students. In St...

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 c...

background: the aggression is one of the most important problems among the adolescences in relation with the others. aggression is an emotion and researches showed that the emotional intelligence might help to better manage. the purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of the emotional intelligence training on the aggression. methods: an experimental design was conducted us...