Showing papers in "Aggression and Violent Behavior in 2014"

TL;DR: The majority of sexual violence prevention strategies in the evaluation literature are brief, psycho-educational programs focused on increasing knowledge or changing attitudes, none of which have shown evidence of effectiveness on sexually violent behavior using a rigorous evaluation design.

TL;DR: The literature regarding the consequences of exposure to workplace violence in the healthcare sector was reviewed and psychological and emotional consequences and impact on work functioning and work functioning were the most frequent and important effects of workplace violence.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis evaluated the relative predictive validity of the risk/need domains from the General Personality and Cognitive Social Learning (GPCSL) perspective and variables taken from the clinical perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis of controlled trials of 44 bullying interventions is presented, which suggests that bullying programs are effective in decreasing bullying and victimization, and that interventions implemented outside of the United States with homogeneous samples are more successful than programs implemented in the USA, where samples tend to be more heterogeneous.

TL;DR: A systematic review and content analysis of bullying measurement strategies to gain a better understanding of each strategy including behavioral content demonstrated general inconsistency in measurement strategies on a range of issues, making comparing prevalence rates between measures difficult.

TL;DR: In this article, a distinction between victim and observer characteristics and its separate influence on rape victim blaming was explored by examining the victim characteristics of gender, sexuality, degree of resistance exhibited, and victim-perpetrator relationship.

TL;DR: It is suggested that ECT provides a new avenue for ADVA rather than representing a new, unique form of abuse, in addition to whether this creates new victims or perpetrators of such abuse.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review of available evidence on the relationship between emotional intelligence and aggression was conducted, finding that people with higher EI show less aggression. But, none of the eligible studies was longitudinal or experimental.

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis of k = 38 studies (60 independent effect sizes), including 6631 participants, was conducted to investigate whether differences in cognitive and affective empathy exist between offenders and non-offenders.

TL;DR: Velotti et al. as mentioned in this paper found that aggression may be an adaptive defensive response to physical pain and many physical threats that, through evolutionary processes, came to be linked to shame once social pain co-opted the affective response of physical pain.

TL;DR: This article found that women are more likely than men to use gossip in an aggressive, competitive manner, where the goal of such gossip is to exclude competitors from a social group and damage the competitor's ability to maintain a reliable social network of her own.

TL;DR: It was showed that the universal intervention delivery method had a significant influence on the magnitude of the effect size, and future research on potential CBI moderators and the role of CBI in the current school environment is suggested.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature on aggression and shame is presented, concluding that both internalized shame and maladaptive shame-regulation are key factors in a number of psychopathologies and that the latter may in turn lead to violent outcomes.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of studies on the effects of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) on anger and aggressive behavior is presented, showing that DBT has a positive impact on the reduction of anger and aggression.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine ways in which EBP tenets are being neglected by correctional psychologists worldwide, and propose several recommendations for injecting EBP back into correctional psychology for the individual, psychology as a discipline, and correctional policy makers.

TL;DR: This article conducted a systematic review of the literature using meta-analytic methods and found that insecure attachment was strongly associated with all types of criminality (i.e., sexual offending, violent offending, non-violent offending, and domestic violence).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the available evidence on the prevalence of sexual aggression perpetration and victimization from 27 EU countries, established as part of the Youth Sexual Aggression and Victimization (Y-SAV) project.

TL;DR: A systematic review of both the peer reviewed literature and of journalistic and legal sources regarding mass and serial killings tentatively indicates that these extreme forms of violence may be a result of a highly complex interaction of biological, psychological and sociological factors.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the empirical literature about how patients and staff in inpatient psychiatric settings perceive violence prevention found that important themes related to patient factors, care staff factors, and organizational and environmental factors remain.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of studies of the association between indicators of attachment or its proxy, and physical aggression or violence is presented in this article, which includes both early developmental studies and criminological studies of older children and adolescents.

TL;DR: There is a significant lack of research on various CCR components, that research on the integration of CCR services is limited, and that theoretical guidance for CCR programs is almost non-existent.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the main characteristics of sexual murderers and the areas in which further research is warranted, and identify the key features of different types of sexual psychopaths.

TL;DR: An international review of academic literature on sexual abuse in residential child and youth care, 1945-2011 focuses on questions related to the nature and scope of sexual abuse, on personal and institutional factors providing either protection or risk, and on how residential institutions have responded to signals ofSexual abuse.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature on offender engagement within group programs is presented, and a model for offender engagement is presented which might help clarify the role of engagement variables.

TL;DR: The conceptualization, definition, measurement, and prevalence of psychological aggression in the relationships of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals vary widely across studies and there is a lack of consistency in examining and reporting psychometric information on measures used to assess PA.

TL;DR: In this article, a literature review examines research exploring the interactions between transgender people and law enforcement and criminal justice personnel in the U.S. to better understand the experiences of transgender people who come into contact with the criminal justice system.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive systematic search of psychology, sociology, and health electronic databases, including PsycInfo and SocIndex, was conducted to examine whether homelessness is predictive of engagement in physically violent behavior and the experience of victimization due to others' physically violent behaviour.

TL;DR: In this article, a more comprehensive definition of serial murder is proposed with three key elements: (1) Two or more forensic linked murders with or without a revealed intention of committing additional murder, (2) the murders are committed as discrete event(s) by the same person(s), and (3) where the primary motive is personal gratification.

TL;DR: This paper examined whether differences in these two subtype classifications are theoretical, semantic or empirical and found that there is more correspondence between reactive and impulsive aggression than there is between proactive and premeditated aggression.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how themes and issues emanating from different disciplines may be brought together to produce a fuller, multi-level analysis that integrates distal and proximate causes of sports crowd violence.