Aggression and violence in adolescence
Using data sets consisting of cross-sectional surveys drawn from nationally representative samples of adolescents in the U.S. and official sources of crime statistics, a portrait of aggression and violence among adolescents is presented. Fluctuations in self-reported and official sources of data are...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798398306719 |
Table of Contents:
- Prevalence of aggression and violence in adolescence
- Definitions of aggression and violence
- Distinguishing aggression and violence from other antisocial behavior
- Reliability and validity of surveyed
- Aggression and violence
- Grade trends in aggression and violent behavior
- Gender and race differences in surveyed
- Aggressive and violent behavior
- Cross national comparisons of surveyed aggression and violence
- Official crime statistics
- Gender and race differences in homicide
- Arrest data for violent crime by adolescents
- Developmental pathways to violence
- Adolescence as a period of transitions
- Adolescence and multiple personality transitions
- Early development of violent behavior
- The centrality of aggression in the development of violence
- Childhood aggression and a resulting cascade of effects
- Early vs. late onset violence
- Multiple developmental pathways from childhood through adolescence
- Longitudinal risk factors for later violence or serious offending
- Personality risk factors for aggression and violence
- Motivators, moderators, and mediators of aggression and violence
- Personality motivators and mediators for aggression and violence : sensation seeking
- Personality motivators and mediators : negative affect
- Personality motivators and mediators : anger
- Personality motivators and mediators : depressed mood/clinical depression
- Personality motivators and mediators : empathy
- Situational risk factors for aggression and violence
- Situational influences and the "general aggression model"
- Provocation
- Frustration
- Pain and discomfort
- Alcohol and drug use and abuse
- Incentives
- Aggressive cues
- Violent episodes in middle and high schools
- Aggression and violence in romantic relationships
- Normative changes in adolescent social relationships
- Normative changes in adolescent dating relationships
- Prevalence and forms of dating violence in adolescence
- Relationship differences and individual differences in dating aggression
- Relationship differences
- Individual differences
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of aggression and violence
- Scientific standards for prevention programs
- Meta-analysis of prevention programs targeting aggression and violence
- Primary prevention programs
- Tertiary prevention programs
- Prevention programs addressing key risk and protective factors
- Risk factors not addressed by programs.
