The new scoundrel on the schoolyard: Contributions of Machiavellianism to the understanding of youth aggression.

2011 ◽  
pp. 193-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holli E. Sink
Keyword(s):  
Youth Aggression

scholarly journals Social cognitions, distress, and leadership self-efficacy: Associations with aggression for high-risk minority youth

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 759-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen S. Leff ◽  
Courtney N. Baker ◽  
Tracy E. Waasdorp ◽  
Nicole A. Vaughn ◽  
Katherine B. Bevans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
Ethnic Minority Youth ◽  
Youth Aggression

AbstractUrban ethnic minority youth are often exposed to high levels of aggression and violence. As such, many aggression intervention programs that have been designed with suburban nonethnic minority youth have been used or slightly adapted in order to try and meet the needs of high-risk urban youth. The current study contributes to the literature base by examining how well a range of social–cognitive, emotional distress and victimization, and prosocial factors are related to youth aggression in a sample of urban youth. This study utilized data gathered from 109 9- to 15-year-old youth (36.7% male; 84.4% African American) and their parents or caregivers. A series of hierarchical multiple regressions were fit predicting youth aggression from social–cognitive variables, victimization and distress, and prosocial variables, controlling for youth gender and age. Each set of variables explained a significant and unique amount of the variance in youth aggressive behavior. The full model including all predictors accounted for 41% of the variance in aggression. Models suggest that youth with stronger beliefs supportive of violence, youth who experience more overt victimization, and youth who experience greater distress in overtly aggressive situations are likely to be more aggressive. In contrast, youth with higher self-esteem and youth who endorse greater leadership efficacy are likely to be less aggressive. Contrary to hypotheses, hostile attributional bias and knowledge of social information processing, experience of relational victimization, distress in relationally aggressive situations, and community engagement were not associated with aggression. Our study is one of the first to address these important questions for low-income, predominately ethnic minority urban youth, and it has clear implications for adapting aggression prevention programs to be culturally sensitive for urban African American youth.

Youth Aggression and Violence Checklist

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh Kumar ◽  
Sapna Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Youth Aggression

scholarly journals Youth aggression topic in the daily newspaper Lietuvos rytas (2011)

Pedagogika ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-249
Author(s):  
Algirdas Gaižutis ◽  
Jurgita Subačiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Informal Groups ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Youth Aggression

Analysing youth aggression topic in the press, it is noted that only statistics of youth aggression cases revealed in the public space is represented. There are no records reflecting the real situation. In this instance, the mass media, which is controlling the thoughts of society, has mostly influence to public attitude formation on youth aggression question. It is often based on stereotypes and myths, in that way representing the vision of distorted reality. The aim of this paper is to ascertain how is represented youth aggression topic in the mass media, and what is its formed image of inseparable from aggression informal groups of young people such as ultras (extreme football fans) and skinheads (nationalist attitude).After having analysed the numbers of daily newspaper Lietuvos rytas (January–December of 2011), 99 articles on youth aggression topic were detected. It is noted, that there are no articles about aggression of young people living in the wealthy and rich families. So the mass media is forming a view, that youth aggression mostly occurs in asocial families, whereas in wealthy families this problem simply does not exist. With regard to the portrayal of youth aggression in Lietuvos rytas, as well as paying attention to the fact that trust in the mass media in Lithuania goes up to 70 percent, we can state that readers form themselves a distorted vision of reality.The most common youth aggression cases represented in the mass media are − younger or peer sexual abuse, as well as a large demonstration of transaggression - aggression used to achieve the objective. Most of the images published in the press are attributed to anger aggression and aggressors are depicted as asocial, intoxicating substances tend to use young people. Analysing Lietuvos rytas (2011), as well as reviewing other newspapers (Lietuvos rytas (2007, 2008), Lietuvos Aidas (2008), Merkio kraštas (2011)) in search of information on Lithuania‘s ultras and skinheads formed image, we have to state that public opinion towards ultras and skinheads is formed mostly not by personal experience (communication, confrontation with them), but by mass media which is the main source of information absorbed by members of the society.

Violent Values, Conduct Norms, and Youth Aggression: A Multilevel Study in Iceland

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Gunnar Bernburg ◽  
Thorolfur Thorlindsson
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Study ◽  
Youth Aggression
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