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Gumpel, Thomas P. – Journal of School Violence, 2014
Antisocial behavior and school aggression in youth has been linked with affective, interpersonal, self-attributional, and behavioral characteristics; these traits have often been associated with psychopathic behaviors among adults. Psychopathic traits were examined in nonclinically-referred youth exhibiting antisocial and aggressive behavior.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Psychopathology, Correlation, Conceptual Tempo
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Paz-Baruch, N.; Leikin, M.; Aharon-Peretz, J.; Leikin, R. – High Ability Studies, 2014
A considerable amount of recent evidence suggests that speed of information processing (SIP) may be related to general giftedness as well as contributing to higher mathematical ability. To date, no study has examined SIP associated with both general giftedness (G) and excellence in mathematics (EM). This paper presents a part of more extensive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Academically Gifted, High Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
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Crapanzano, Ann Marie; Frick, Paul J.; Terranova, Andrew M. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2010
The current study investigated the patterns of aggressive behavior displayed in a sample of 282 students in the 4th through 7th grades (M age = 11.28; SD = 1.82). Using cluster analyses, two distinct patterns of physical aggression emerged for both boys and girls with one aggressive cluster showing mild levels of reactive aggression and one group…
Descriptors: Aggression, Females, Gender Differences, Males
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Mehrotra, Purnima; Noar, Seth M.; Zimmerman, Rick S.; Palmgreen, Philip – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2009
Although risk perception as a motivator of precautionary behavior is a key component of several health behavior theories, this motivational hypothesis has found mixed support in the HIV/AIDS area. This may be, in part, because risk perceptions are more complex than they are treated in many studies of the motivational hypothesis. The current study…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Behavior Theories, Ethnicity, Sexually Transmitted Diseases