Mental health nurses are faced with an increasing number of aggressive incidents during their daily practice. The coercive intervention of seclusion is often used to manage patient aggression in the Netherlands. However, GGZ Nederland, the Dutch association of service providers for mental health and addition care, has initiated a project to decrease the number of seclusions in clinical psychiat...

This research investigated the influence of parent-adolescent communication quality, as perceived by the adolescents, on the relationship between adolescents’ Internet use and verbal aggression. Adolescents (N = 363, age range 10-16, M T1 = 12.84, SD = 1.93) were examined twice with a six-month delay. Controlling for social support in general terms, moderated regression analyses showed that Int...

Pathological personality is strongly linked with interpersonal impairment, yet no study to date has examined the relationship between concurrent personality pathology and dysfunction in marriage--a relationship that most people find central to their lives. In a cross-sectional study of a community sample of married couples (N = 82), the authors used multilevel modeling to estimate the associati...

CONTEXT The relationship between exposure to aggression in the media and children's aggressive behavior is well documented. However, few potential solutions have been evaluated. OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of reducing television, videotape, and video game use on aggressive behavior and perceptions of a mean and scary world. DESIGN Randomized, controlled, school-based trial. SETTING Tw...

BACKGROUND Workplace aggression constitutes a serious problem in individual, organizational and social cause-effect relations. The aim is to determine the prevalence of such aggression on the pilot sample to test the appropriateness of the research design for the further conduct of a national survey on the specified topic. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The sample included 113 employees in the city of ...

Qasemi F1, Valizadeh F1, Toulabi T2, Saki M3 1. Instructor, Department of Children, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences 2. Instructor, Department of Internal Surgery, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences 3. Instructor, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences Abstr...

objective: the purpose of this study is to provide evidence of validity of the relational and overt aggression questionnaire (roaq) among iranian elementary students. methods: three hundred and forty nine 4th and 5th grade students (ages 9 and 10) participated in this study. participants completed the roaq. the scale consisted of 33 items designed to measure self-report aggressive behaviors for...


 The topic of the present article concerns verbal aggression and focusses on expression emotional mind; specifically, negative feelings, emotions attitudes. Since computer-mediated communication is widely used to shape reshape public opinion, analysis hate speech material internet discourse may shed light manipulative communicative tactics that are in online media social networking sites ...