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Personality and Social Contexts

Selected Works

2012

Aggression

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That Mild-Mannered Bruce Lee, Michael E. Trulson, Chong W. Kim, Vernon R. Padgett Aug 2012

That Mild-Mannered Bruce Lee, Michael E. Trulson, Chong W. Kim, Vernon R. Padgett

Chong W. Kim

The article focuses on various studies related to the link between martial arts training and its various outcomes like aggressiveness. An inverse relationship between aggressiveness and length of martial arts training, was found by T. A. Nosanchuk of Carleton University. Another study found that problem teenagers changed after some months of practice in Tae Kwon Do. It is stated that the ability to defend one's self and physical fitness are two other benefits of martial arts.


The Virus Of Violence, Mattias Allard, Bruce Watt Mar 2012

The Virus Of Violence, Mattias Allard, Bruce Watt

Bruce Watt

Models explaining the relationship between victimisation and violence typically fail to include any mediation variables to account for the difference between victimised individuals that become violent in adulthood and those that don’t. A model was proposed, using a Gold Coast community sample of 250 individuals (79 males, 138 females, 33 no answer) with a median age 41-45, that violent thoughts (measured as violent fantasies and permissive attitudes towards violence) mediate the relationship between victimisation (measured retrospectively) and aggression. The study controlled for gender and social desirability bias. The model consisted of a distal stage (victimisation and gender), proximal stage (permissive …