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Aggression In Dark Personalities: The Role Of Self-Esteem, Anastasia Skobkareva
Aggression In Dark Personalities: The Role Of Self-Esteem, Anastasia Skobkareva
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The relationship between self-esteem and the Dark Triad traits has not been subject to extensive, systematic empirical investigation. In particular, there is a dearth of research on the role of self-esteem, the Dark Triad traits, and aggression. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the associations between both explicit and implicit measures of self-esteem and aggression, and to examine these associations as they relate to the Dark Triad traits. Additionally, the present study set out to examine the test-retest reliability of the widely used Implicit Association Test (IAT) paradigm, as well as the effects of mood primers on …
Young Children’S Use Of Mobile Technology: Impacts On Self-Regulation And Aggression, Amy Wei-Yan Tran
Young Children’S Use Of Mobile Technology: Impacts On Self-Regulation And Aggression, Amy Wei-Yan Tran
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The present study tested the displacement hypothesis, which proposed that mobile technology use disrupts important daily activities and social interactions that are important for the development of young children’s self-regulation skills (Gentile et al., 2012). As a result of this displacement, children are more likely to become dysregulated and aggressive. Participants were 174 caregivers (n = 157 mothers) who reported on their children aged 2 to 5 years old (n = 100 male). All participants completed self-report questionnaires assessing their own technology use, interference in the parent-child relationship due to mobile technology, and the use of mobile technology as a …
Violent Video Gaming, Parent And Child Risk Factors, And Aggression In School-Age Children, Erin Romanchych
Violent Video Gaming, Parent And Child Risk Factors, And Aggression In School-Age Children, Erin Romanchych
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The present study examined links between children’s violent video game exposure and aggression, and the influence of parent and child risk factors (i.e., children’s negative affect and hostile attribution bias, parental monitoring, and children’s gender). Participants were 122 Canadian parent-child dyads (99 unique parents) including children between 7 and 10 years of age (41 girls, 81 boys; 72 mothers, 26 fathers). Parents completed pencil-and-paper questionnaires assessing children’s violent video game exposure, aggressive behaviour, negative affect, and parental monitoring of children’s media use (i.e., parental involvement, limit setting, and communication). Children completed pencil-and-paper questionnaires assessing violent video game exposure and hostile …
Finding Nemo's Place In A Complex Animal Society: An Exploration Of The Behavioural And Hormonal Correlates Of Dominance In Amphiprion Ocellaris, Eugene Cheung
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Exploration of the mechanisms underlying conflict resolution has been key to our understanding of the dynamics driving the formation and organization of complex animal societies. This thesis examines the role of aggression and individual variation on dominance hierarchies and the correlates of expression of cortisol, 11-ketotestosterone, and testosterone on individual social status in novel size-matched Amphiprion ocellaris dominance hierarchies. Here, I report that greater aggressiveness relays higher dominance status during hierarchy establishment, as well as during experimental recruitment of highly aggressive smaller individuals into established groups. Additionally, I show that cortisol expression profiles are related to social status in both …
Young Children's Aggression: Links Between Emotion Regulation, Mother-Child Shared Affect, Parenting Practices And Parenting Support, Erin L. Romanchych
Young Children's Aggression: Links Between Emotion Regulation, Mother-Child Shared Affect, Parenting Practices And Parenting Support, Erin L. Romanchych
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The present research examined links between children's emotion regulation, mother-child shared affect, mothers' perceived parenting support, parenting practices (i.e., mothers' involvement, limit setting, communication), and young children's physical aggression. Participants were 129 young children (3 to 6 years) and their mothers. Mothers completed questionnaires assessing parenting practices, parenting support, and their children's emotion regulation and aggressive behaviour. Mother-child dyads participated in a free play task and a structured block task. These mother-child interactive tasks were coded for shared positive and negative affect between the dyads. Higher levels of mothers' limit setting and communication were each related to lower levels of …
Links Among Maternal Emotion Socialization, And Children's Emotional Competence And Social Behaviour, Sara Eileen O'Neil Woods
Links Among Maternal Emotion Socialization, And Children's Emotional Competence And Social Behaviour, Sara Eileen O'Neil Woods
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Young children's prosocial behaviour has been linked with later social and academic competence; whereas aggression in early childhood is predictive of later psychopathology, academic problems, and crime. In a sample of 136 mother-child pairs, associations among maternal emotion socialization, emotional competence, social behaviour, and perceived social acceptance were explored. Results revealed that mothers' expressive encouragement responses and children's emotion regulation skills predicted children's prosocial behaviour. In addition, children's prosocial behaviour was positively associated with their perceived peer acceptance. Children's emotion regulation problems were found to completely mediate the association between mothers' distress reactions and children's parent-reported physical aggression, with higher …