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Invitation Accepted: Integrating Invitational Rhetoric in Educational Contexts
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Modesti, Sonja – Current Issues in Education, 2012
The transformative power of dialogue has the potential to serve as a healthful alternative to unproductive strategies for problem-solving in many communication contexts (Ryan & Natalle, 2001). Sadly, educational contexts emerge as contexts in dire need of such communicative reconstruction, evidenced by the alarming increase in incidences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rhetoric, Communication Skills, Attitudes
Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? Peer Group Similarities in Adolescent Hostile Attribution Tendencies
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Halligan, Sarah L.; Philips, Katherine J. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
A bias toward attributing hostile intent to others has been linked to aggression. In an adolescent sample, the question of whether peer group homophily exists in the tendency toward attributing hostile intent was investigated. Hostile attribution tendencies and self-reported aggressive behaviors were assessed in a normative sample of 910…
Descriptors: Aggression, Adolescents, Peer Groups, Psychological Patterns
The Function of Aggression in Personality Disordered Patients
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Daffern, Michael; Howells, Kevin – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
It has been suggested that psychological interventions for personality disorders should focus on improving adaptive expression of the functional needs expressed through problematic behaviors such as aggression. The measurement of function is a necessary condition for devising a function-based treatment approach. Two studies that employ a method…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Aggression, Personality Traits, Patients
Observing Bullying at School: The Mental Health Implications of Witness Status
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Rivers, Ian; Poteat, V. Paul; Noret, Nathalie; Ashurst, Nigel – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
This study explores the impact of bullying on the mental health of students who witness it. A representative sample of 2,002 students aged 12 to 16 years attending 14 schools in the United Kingdom were surveyed using a questionnaire that included measures of bullying at school, substance abuse, and mental health risk. The results suggest that…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Bullying, Mental Health, Foreign Countries
Social Interaction in Withdrawn and Aggressive Maladjusted Girls: A Study of Gaze.
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Rutter, D. R.; O'Brien, Pamela – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1980
Examines the social behavior of withdrawn and aggressive girls, taking gaze as dependent measure. It was predicted that (1) withdrawn children will gaze less than aggressive children but that (2) the difference will be marked only in discussions of personal matters. Twenty girls aged 12-15 were selected from two schools for maladusted children in…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Aggression, Comparative Analysis
Knives and Other Weapons in London Schools
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Neill, S. R. St. J. – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2005
London schools operate in an area where crime rates, including violent crime, is statistically more frequent than the average for the whole of England and Wales (Moore and Yeo 2004). Violent crime in the capital increased (though not to a statistically significant extent) between 2002/3 and 2003/4 (Moore and Yeo 2004b). This has led to a…
Descriptors: Violence, Crime, Foreign Countries, Weapons