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Byron Wine; Eli T. Newcomb – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2024
Although decades of behavior-analytic studies have focused on decreasing the aggressive behavior of clients, relatively little research has been conducted on preventing injuries for the staff members who implement treatment plans. In this study, three direct-care staff members working with clients presenting with aggressive behavior were taught…
Descriptors: Aggression, Violence, Injuries, Prevention
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Albert D. Farrell; Courtney B. Dunn; Kelly E. O'Connor – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
This study's goal was to identify patterns of risk and promotive factors across multiple social-ecological domains and their associations with adolescents' problem behaviors (aggression, substance use, and other delinquent behaviors), victimization, and distress symptoms. Participants were a mostly African American (79%) sample of 2711 middle…
Descriptors: Risk, Aggression, Behavior Problems, Middle School Students
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Rubbi Nunan, Julie Shantone – Education and Society, 2023
Students' challenging behaviour is a persisting problem in some primary schools. In South African primary schools, however, students' challenging behaviour is mainly understood as disruptive classroom behaviour. To establish how primary schools experience this phenomenon, interviews were held with twenty-one participants, purposively selected from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Elementary School Students
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Michele L. Ybarra; Hanno Petras; Kimberly L. Goodman; Kimberly J. Mitchell – Prevention Science, 2024
To identify factors in adolescence that predict the onset of sexual violence in adolescence and young adulthood. Data were analyzed from six survey waves of the longitudinal Growing up with Media Study (2008-2018) conducted in the USA. Participants were 778 youth 13-18 years old at baseline, who completed online surveys assessing sexual violence…
Descriptors: Rape, Sexuality, Adolescents, Predictor Variables
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de Klerk, Anke; Keulen-de Vos, Marije; Lobbestael, Jill – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2022
Background: In forensic settings, patients with intellectual disabilities are overrepresented. A relative novel treatment approach for this population is schema therapy. The goals of schema therapy for offenders with intellectual disabilities are to reduce maladaptive emotional states and to reinforce healthy emotional states and enhancing the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Criminals, Intellectual Disability, Schemata (Cognition)
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Antoci, Diana; Mislitchi, Valentina; Diacon, Maria – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2020
The present work combats the problem of violence and aggressive behaviour through mentoring. The theoretical point of view certified studies that highlight various aspects of the problem of violent and aggressive behaviour remediation of preadolescents and adolescents. At present there are no publications that completely synthesize the…
Descriptors: Violence, Aggression, Behavior Problems, Mentors
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Rubbi Nunan, Julie Shantone – Journal of Education, 2022
South African primary school teachers struggle curtailing student behaviors, therefore impeding teaching and learning. To understand this phenomenon, 15 primary school teachers were interviewed. Findings reveal that students' negative family dynamics, displaced aggression, and social factors influenced challenging behavior. Social cognitive theory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Björne, Petra; Deveau, Roy; Nylander, Lena – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2021
Background: It is mandatory for staff in Swedish community services for people with intellectual disabilities to report incidents of error or malpractice. Aim The aim is to study if incident reports contribute to developing quality in services for people with intellectual disabilities who present with challenging behaviours. Method: 159 reports on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Reports, Disclosure
Lea Petrovic – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Exposure to violence among children and adolescents has been linked to negative outcomes including posttraumatic stress disorder, externalizing problems, low academic achievement, and impaired social-emotional adjustment. Aggressive behaviors specifically are shown to be strongly predicted by both direct and indirect violence exposure. Aggressive…
Descriptors: Violence, Children, Adolescents, Aggression
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Meléndez Guevara, Ana Maria; Gaias, Larissa M.; Fraser, Ashely M.; Lindstrom Johnson, Sarah – Youth & Society, 2022
Limited work has focused on understanding mechanisms through which violence negatively impacts youth outcomes. The present study investigates how three different facets of violence exposure (witnessing violence, victimization and armed conflict) relate to Colombian youth externalizing behaviors via the indirect influence of aggressive cognitions…
Descriptors: Violence, Aggression, Behavior Problems, Youth
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Friedman, Abbey; Taraban, Lindsay; Sitnick, Stephanie; Shaw, Daniel S. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
The current study explored early adolescent child-level predictors (physical aggression, impulsivity, empathy) and contextual-level predictors (peer deviance, neighborhood dangerousness) of violent and nonviolent antisocial behavior (AB) in late adolescence. Additionally, we tested the moderating role of rejecting parenting on these associations…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Predictor Variables, Aggression
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Nam, Su-Jung – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
Cyber delinquency in adolescence is a particular area of concern for psychologists owing to its association with several mental health issues and its potential link with offline delinquency. This longitudinal study examined the stability of changes and directions of influence in adolescents' cyber delinquency, aggression, and offline delinquency…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Aggression, Computer Mediated Communication, Adolescents
Beatton, Tony; Kidd, Michael P.; Sandi, Matteo – Centre for Economic Performance, 2020
This paper studies the impact of compulsory schooling on violent behaviour and victimization in school using individual-level administrative data matching education and criminal records from Queensland (Australia). Exploiting a legislative increase in the minimum dropout age in 2006, this study defines a series of regression-discontinuity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Victims, Discipline
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Gresham, Bria; Orihuela, Catheryn A.; Mrug, Sylvie – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2021
Community violence exposure is associated with externalizing problems in adolescents, yet little research has examined the moderating role of coping in these relationships. Eighty-four low-income, urban adolescents (M[subscript age] = 13.36, 50% male, 95% African American) participated in two waves of a longitudinal study a year and a half apart.…
Descriptors: Coping, Behavior Problems, Substance Abuse, Urban Areas
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Yanez, Christina; Seldin, Melissa; Mann, Rebecca – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
The data used in this report come from the 2017 School Crime Supplement (SCS), a nationally representative sample survey of students ages 12 through 18 enrolled in public or private school for all or part of the school year (not homeschooled for all of the school year). The SCS is administered every other year to students as a supplement to the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Student Attitudes, Discipline, Student Behavior
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