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Brady, Sonya S.; Gorman-Smith, Deborah; Henry, David B.; Tolan, Patrick H. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008
This study examined whether coping moderated the impact of community violence exposure (CVE) on violent behavior among 285 urban African American and Latino adolescent males assessed annually across 5 years. Composites indicating overall CVE (having knowledge of others' victimization, witnessing violence, direct victimization) and approach to…
Descriptors: Violence, Adolescents, Coping, Victims of Crime
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Sheidow, Ashli J.; Strachan, Martha K.; Minden, Joel A.; Henry, David B.; Tolan, Patrick H.; Gorman-Smith, Deborah – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
Research examining the relationship between internalizing symptoms and antisocial behaviors has generally been cross-sectional in design. Thus, although extant data have substantiated a strong correlation between internalizing symptoms and antisocial behaviors, few studies have focused on describing the nature of the co-occurrence over time. This…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Antisocial Behavior, Caregivers, Psychopathology
George, William H.; Marlatt, G. Alan – 1983
Although research has examined the content of alcohol-outcome expectancies and also the role of alcohol use in aggressive and sexual behaviors, few studies have linked the two lines of inquiry. To examine the efficacy of outcome expectancies for predicting actual behavior, 64 male social drinkers, aged 21 to 25 years, completed questionnaires and,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Drinking, Expectation
Cowden, James E.; and others – J Genet Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Delinquency, Delinquent Behavior
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Haviland, Amelia; Nagin, Daniel S.; Rosenbaum, Paul R. – Psychological Methods, 2007
In a nonrandomized or observational study, propensity scores may be used to balance observed covariates and trajectory groups may be used to control baseline or pretreatment measures of outcome. The trajectory groups also aid in characterizing classes of subjects for whom no good matches are available and to define substantively interesting groups…
Descriptors: Males, Observation, Control Groups, Matched Groups
Comstock, George – Television & Children, 1983
Defines pornography, the aspect of sexuality which evokes most attention from the media, and discusses findings of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography and of psychologists who have recently found that exposure to a portrayal where violence and sex are coupled does increase subsequent aggression toward a female. (MBR)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Males, Mass Media Effects, Media Research
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Anderson, Wayne P.; Holcomb, William R. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1983
Identified five types of violent criminals (N=110) using cluster analysis of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scores, and compared them on 24 sociological and behavioral variables. Results showed differences on 16 items including family history, drug and alcohol use, events preceding the crime, and relationship between offender and…
Descriptors: Background, Behavior Patterns, Classification, Cluster Analysis
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Kazemian, Lila; Le Blanc, Marc – Crime & Delinquency, 2007
Using a sample of adjudicated French Canadian males from the Montreal Two Samples Longitudinal Study, this article investigates individual and social characteristics associated with differential cost avoidance. The main objective of this study is to determine whether such traits are randomly distributed across differential degrees of cost…
Descriptors: French Canadians, Social Characteristics, Crime, Males
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Thomas, Margaret Hanratty – Journal of Research in Personality, 1982
Studied male students who viewed an aggressive television program or a neutral one. Half of the students were then angered by a confederate. Results indicated angered men who had seen the aggressive film were most aggressive and exhibited the lowest average pulse rates both before and after shock delivery. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Aggression, Arousal Patterns, Behavior Patterns, Emotional Response
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Kandel-Englander, Elizabeth – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1992
Questioned 2,291 American males to determine the proportion of men who assault only extrafamilial persons, are violent only toward their wives, and are violent in both spheres. Results suggest that 90 percent of violent males specialized in their choice of victims, choosing to assault only wives or nonfamily members, but not both. (RJM)
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Battered Women, Behavior Patterns
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Potts, Richard; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Reports on an experiment that examined the independent effects of television content (violence) and television formal features (action) on preschool boys' attention to programs and their postviewing social behavior. Shows rapid character action facilitated visual attention to the programs and that television action level had no systematic effects…
Descriptors: Aggression, Attention Span, Behavior Patterns, Males
Shields, Nancy; Pierce, Lois – 1997
Drawing on theoretical and empirical studies, this paper hypothesized that attitudes towards the use of violence and the use of aggressive and violent behavior among preadolescent African American males would be affected by verbal aggression in the home, violence observed in the community, family environment, and peer models. Data on aggressive…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Age Differences, Aggression, Behavior Patterns
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Shepard, Melanie F.; Campbell, James A. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1992
Validates a behavior inventory that was developed to measure the physical and psychological abuse of women by their partners. For the study, 100 men and 78 women were divided into groups of abusers/abused and nonabusers/nonabused. Significant differences between the abusers and nonabusers groups' scores supported the instrument's soundness. (RJM)
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Battered Women, Behavior Patterns
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Veneziano, Carol; Veneziano, Louis – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1992
Family functioning of 411 incarcerated male juvenile delinquents (aged 12-16 years) was studied using the Family Environmental Scale. A typology of family social environments was developed using cluster analysis. Delinquents with the most serious behavioral difficulties come from family environments with few strengths and openly expressed conflict…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Classification, Cluster Analysis
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Malamuth, Neil M. – Journal of Social Issues, 1981
Describes and integrates data concerning the hypothesis that many "normal" men possess the proclivity to rape. Identifies responses that distinguish convicted rapists from the general population; analyzes the relationships between reported likelihood of raping and responses found to characterize rapists; and examines the relationship between…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Arousal Patterns, Attitudes
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