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Pathways To Aggressive Behavior: Antisocial And Borderline Personality Symptoms And The Mechanisms Of Impulsivity, Negative Affect, And Distress Tolerance, Katherine Lee Bracken-Minor
Pathways To Aggressive Behavior: Antisocial And Borderline Personality Symptoms And The Mechanisms Of Impulsivity, Negative Affect, And Distress Tolerance, Katherine Lee Bracken-Minor
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Aggressive behaviors, including physical aggression toward others and non-suicidal self-injury, are high-risk behaviors that are prevalent in the college student population. Personality disorder symptoms, particularly those of antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder, are associated with these aggressive behaviors. Some researchers have posited that ASPD and BPD are “mirror-image disorders” that have similar underlying traits but differing behavioral manifestations of those characteristics, namely differing in terms of the object of their aggression. The present study investigated these issues by examining the pathways from ASPD and BPD to aggressive behaviors via the mechanisms of impulsivity, negative affect, and distress tolerance …
Cognitive And Affective Empathy As Predictors Of Proactive And Reactive Aggression, Gina Marie Gordon
Cognitive And Affective Empathy As Predictors Of Proactive And Reactive Aggression, Gina Marie Gordon
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This study examined cognitive and affective empathy as predictors of proactive and reactive aggression. This study also explored whether levels of cognitive and affective empathy differed among children who use proactive and reactive aggression. Cognitive and affective empathy were measured by the Basic Empathy Scale (Jolliffe & Farrington, 2006a). The two types of aggression, proactive and reactive, were measured by the Reactive and Proactive Aggression Questionnaire-Child (Raine, 2006). Both instruments are self-report questionnaires that reveal children's perceptions about empathy and aggression. Sociodemographic information, such as age, grade, and gender were also included in the data. The sample of convenience in …
A Neurophysiological Examination Of Stress Control In Martial Artists, Jack Pemment
A Neurophysiological Examination Of Stress Control In Martial Artists, Jack Pemment
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The philosophies behind many martial arts often claim that by practicing martial arts individuals can gain better control over stress. We tested this idea by using controlled physical stressors to elicit an acute stress response from martial artists (n=15) and non-martial artists (n=18). To measure the extent of the stress response, we looked at changes in heart rate, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and galvanic skin level. These three measures explore both parasympathetic and sympathetic responses, and changes in these variables continue to be explored in studies of stress and reactive aggression. In addition to our physical stressors we also exposed individuals …