Aggression is associated with a host of behavioral, social, and emotional adjustment difficulties. However, some aggressive youth are perceived as "popular" by peers. Although these perceived popular aggressive youth appear relatively well adjusted, especially in the social domain, the emotional well-being of these youth is understudied. The current findings indicate that perceived popularity b...

The effects of a mindfulness-based procedure, called Meditation on the Soles of the Feet, were evaluated as a cognitive-behavioral intervention for physical aggression in 6 offenders with mild intellectual disabilities. They were taught a simple meditation technique that required them to shift their attention and awareness from the precursors of aggression to the soles of their feet, a neutral ...

Buss and Perry (1992) developed the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) to assess aggressiveness as a personality trait in high school and college samples. The AQ has been used by researchers in United States, Italy, Germany, Netherland, Japan, Canada, and Greece. The present study is reported on an Arabic adapted version of the AQ among a sample of 510 Egyptian high school students. An exploratory f...

This study (a) examined the role of anger rumination as a mediator of the relation between social anxiety and the experience of anger, hostility, and aggression, in the general population, and (b) evaluated the degree to which the presence of autism spectrum disorder characteristics moderates the indirect influence of anger rumination. We then explored whether social cognition and perseveration...

Introduction Empathy is believed to play an important role in fostering prosocial behavior and social competence. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of empathy teaching on aggression and compatibility in female students of elementary sixth grade in yazd, center of Iran. Materials and Methods The samples were 62 girl students of grade 6 in elementary schools that were selected ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the frequency, source and type of aggression towards doctors, depending on their place of work and position. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was conducted among 501 doctors from the area of Podlaskie Province. To evaluate the level and type of aggression towards doctors in their workplace we used a questionnaire prepared for the needs of this study by modifying the question...

Hostile attributions are an important predictor of aggression in children, but few studies have measured hostile attributions as they occur in real-time. The current study uses an interactive video racing game to measure hostile attributions while children played against a presumed peer. A sample of 75 children, ages 10-13, used nonverbal and verbal procedures to respond to ambiguous provocatio...

The Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for Violence Risk - Youth Version (SAPROF-YV) is a new measure protective factors. It used with risk-focused tool, such as the in (SAVRY), to provide more balanced and comprehensive assessment violence risk adolescents. Our study investigated relationship between SAPROF-YV aggression sample 69 Using retrospective follow-up design, we reviewed file...

This article is devoted to a little-studied topic in criminal psychology - women who commit serious crimes. study analyzes the relationship between complex of personality traits “The Dark Triad” and Aggression correlation with aggression sub-types such as physical aggression, verbal anger, hostility. The was conducted on delinquent that were sentenced prison for violent crimes, including murder...