... Personality Item Pool (Mini IPIP ) and the Psychopathic Processing and Personality Assessment (PAPA-2). Findings Gaslighting perpetration predicted other forms of aggressive perpetration (i.e. coercive control and stalking), with being a victim of gaslighting predicting other forms of victimisation...

...Ora Peleg; Fatma Awawdi Purpose This study aims to explore the effects of low differentiation of self (DoS) and exposure to inter-parental conflicts during childhood on levels of aggression in adulthood, with psychological distress – particularly trait anxiety – serving as a mediating factor...

... and violent than females, leading to males engaging in both online and offline aggressions at much higher rates than females (see Sharma et al., 2017). Other research found that females were more involved in cyberbullying (see Balakrishnan, 2015). This could be attributed to females being less...

... workplace aggressions (VWPAs); however, most studies have been conducted internationally. Studies based in the USA have focused on physical violence experienced by nurses and paramedics in emergency situations. The purpose of this study is to learn about the experiences of different levels of frontline HCWs...

... herders’ aggression. More guns less crime deterrence theory served as the framework of analysis, which posits that because criminals are rational beings, they will choose not to attack when they know many people have legitimate firearms. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from four...

...Mohammad Javad Najafzadeh; Sadra Ghazanfari Pour; Parisa Divsalar Purpose The risk of aggression is higher among people with psychiatric disorders. This study aims to determine the association of aggression with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) in patients...

...Ali Asghar Khaleghi; Saeedeh Jafarzadeh; Pooyan Afzali Harsini; Seyyed Hannan Kashfi; Fatemeh Mohammadkhah; Ali Khani Jeihooni Purpose Aggressive behaviors are common among students. Given the importance of education in reducing aggressive behavior, this study aims to examine the influence...

... were transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically using a phenomenological approach. Findings Participants consistently identified five groups of perpetrators and tailored their approach on their assessment of the type of perpetrator involved. The five categories are: violence or aggressive...

... Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Homicide Aggression Epidemiology Mortality Socioeconomic factors Violence exposure In most vulnerable classes, such as people with the worst socioeconomic conditions, the highest homicide rates are observed...

...Sohni Siddiqui; Anjum Bano Kazmi; Zahid Ahmed Purpose Aggression is an undesirable behavior that assaults traditions norms, morals and standards of ethics practiced in society. To address the scarceness of identification tools and for evidence-based interventions in Pakistan, the purpose...

... by manipulating social divisions and blowing them out of proportion with threat, fear and hate discourses as well as propaganda, and with no-compromise, aggressive, crisis politics. Being an opportunity centred conflict theory; it contends that elites create opportunities with issues and crises to advance...

...Fang Hong; Yijing Lin; Mikyung Jang; Amanda Tarullo; Majed Ashy; Kathleen Malley-Morrison Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine associations between fear of terrorism and several predictors (gender and nationality) and outcomes (moral disengagement, authoritarianism, aggression...

...Sajjad Rezaei Purpose Aggression is a destructive experience in terms of social and public health. The purpose of this paper is to determine the role of depressive mood, premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and premenstrual syndrome (PMS) in adolescent girls’ aggression. Design/methodology...

...Christie Tetreault; Eva Hoff Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore if a ringing cell phone could impact cognitive performance as well as being agitating to provoke aggressive reactions. The study investigated variables that could impact a participant’s willingness to aggress...

...Katherine Whale; Kathleen Green; Kevin Browne Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between attachment style, sub-clinical symptoms of psychosis and aggression in a general population sample. Design/methodology/approach Using both convenience and snowball sampling...

... published studies between January 1960 and October 2016 that included the combination of alcohol and psychopathy, antisocial personality and violence, aggression. Findings The evidence converges to indicate that, in college and community samples, self-reported antisocial lifestyle traits interact...

...Robert D. Ridge; Brooke E. Dresden; Felicia L. Farley; Christopher E. Hawk Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of reconciliation and retaliation story endings on subsequent aggressive affect and behavior. Design/methodology/approach Participants took part in two...

...Andrew M. Sherrill; Lauren T. Bradel Purpose Findings are mixed with regard to the link between contact sport participation and aggression. One possibility is that contact sport participation may be associated with instrumental aggression but not hostile aggression. The purpose of this paper...

...Philip Birch; Peta Kennedy Purpose – Human-directed aggression by pet dogs is of significant concern (Klausz et al., 2013), and while there is evidence to suggest that public awareness surrounding this social problem has occurred, the academic literature is limited (Martinez et al...

...Alexander Wettstein; Marion Scherzinger Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine naturally occurring episodes of aggressive interaction among adolescents in residential correctional programmes. The aims of our study were twofold. First, the development of a new camera-glasses method...