Gender differences permeate every aspect of human personality and appearance, dictate how men women should act, think behave. embodies a pattern relations that evolves over time to define male female, masculinity femininity, concurrently structuring regulating people’s relation society. decides what is expected, permitted valued in woman or man given context. This paper discusses female aggress...

Teachers promote student learning and well-being in school by establishing a supportive classroom structure. The term classroom structure refers to how teachers design tasks, maintain authority, and evaluate student achievement. Although empirical studies have shown the relation of classroom structure to student motivation, achievement, and well-being, no prior investigations have examined the ...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have suggested that the age-personality relationship may be partly explained by age-related changes in response bias. In the present study, we analysed how age affected social desirability and acquiescence, and how this effect impacted the age-aggression relationship. METHOD We used the Indirect-Direct Aggression Questionnaire, which provides response bias and physic...

OBJECTIVE To describe the 12-month prevalence of verbal or written and physical aggression from patients, patients' relatives or carers, coworkers and others in Australian clinical medical practice. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS An exploratory, descriptive study of cross-sectional survey design in the third wave (March 2010 to June 2011) of the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment a...

OBJECTIVE Aggression is a common feature in psychiatric in-patient units in Africa. The attitudes of psychiatric nurses and their perceptions of the frequency of in-patient aggression have not been explored in the Nigerian context. METHOD Using a crosssectional study design, two self-report questionnaires (the Attitudes toward Aggression Scale (ATAS) and the Perception of the Prevalence of Ag...

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...

We describe the development and psychometric characteristics of the Generalized Workplace Harassment Questionnaire (GWHQ), a 29-item instrument developed to assess harassing experiences at work in five conceptual domains: verbal aggression, disrespect, isolation/exclusion, threats/bribes, and physical aggression. Over 1700 current and former university employees completed the GWHQ at three time...

Aim of this study: is a) to detect informal structures (power and position in structures of targeting of verbal aggression) among higher education students, b) to analyze determinants of these structural properties, and c) to propose a typology of verbal aggression targets. Complete network analysis was applied on a sample of a 53 students in Physical Education Faculty, Thessaly University, Gre...

OBJECTIVE Childhood aggression may lead to severe social disorders in adolescence and adulthood. Different psychiatric approaches are focused on preschool aged aggressive children. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and associated factors of childhood direct and indirect aggression. METHODS In this cross sectional study a total of 1403 children attending 43 kindergartens wer...

PURPOSE Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescent has drawn increasing attention because it is associated with subsequent depression, drug abuse, anxiety disorders, and suicide. In the present study, we aimed to estimate the prevalence of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in a school-based sample of Chinese adolescents and to explore the association between aggression and NSSI. METHODS This...