High Correlation Between Aggression And Violence

Dr Richard Tremblay, a professor at University of Montreal, claimed that children possess genes which predispose them to aggression unless they learn how to control it well during pre-school years (Connor, 2007). Those who fail to learn how to do so will become aggressive adults. Dr Tremblay observed that children between three to four behave more aggressive physically compared to adults (in terms of frequency). He believes

     Lifestyles also play an important part in youth violence. Growing up in a divorced family as well as the way your parents raised you are major aspects that effect youth today. When children go through a divorce they experience tremendous pain and go through a lot of changes in their life.(chapter 9 impact of divorce) They experience behavioral problems, and less academic achievements. Adolescents in this stage can also experience aggression toward their parents as well as their friends and other family members due to the divorce. Every parent had there own parenting styles of raising their kids, however, some ways can lead to corrupt behavior. There are the authoritative parents whose children tend to be moody, aggressive, and have poor communication skills. Then there are the permissive and authoritative parents who are generally caring and sensitive towards their children.(chapter 9 parenting styles) Studies have shown that if you grow up in a family that shows aggression towards one another, then it is more likely that you as a young adult will be aggressive as well. However in recent studies,

behaviors. Longitudinal studies have proved dissimilarities between violent and non-violent behavior whereby aggressive and violent behavior were more stable.

adults, later on. A general assumption, according to Delson, et al., 2004 is that factors as the

The current event I examined, from an online scientific news database, exemplified research on evolutionary biology of humans and the roots of violent nature. The article, “Nature or nurture: is violence in our genes?”, discusses how scientists recently researched if savage behaviors in homo sapiens are hereditary. Considering that lethal violence is closely related to the linage of primates, specifically monkeys and apes, it’s no surprise that humans also exhibit similar behaviors to these ancient ancestors. The Spanish researchers which conducted this analysis examined over four million deaths in various species of primates and mammals investigating the amount of brutal deaths in each. For accuracy, the investigation included human population from the stone age till present day. As a result, the researchers saw an increase in violent deaths or killings as they examined more recent primate groups. Concluding, the tendency for violence in humans is indeed phylogenetically inherited. On the other hand, while the article highly focused on the genetic aspects of violent human behaviors, near the end the article also acknowledges environmental factors. Besides being inherited, social and territorial tendencies also increase levels of

Most children begin to show aggression as they start engaging in more human contact(Berk, 2014). There are three subcategories that will be looked at in this analysis of Damaged. This consists of physical, verbal, and relational aggression. Physical aggression is behavior causing physical harm to others by hitting, kicking, biting, using weapons, and breaking toys or other possessions(Berk, 2014). Verbal aggression can be defined as deliberately harmful behavior that is communicated through a form of speech, such as teasing, taunting, or threatening, which is initiated by one or more individuals(Berk, 2014). The final subcategory is relational aggression, in which a person damages someone’s relationships or social

The researchers conducted a longitudinal study to determine the child’s aggression from the ages 3

‘Research suggests that violence arises from interactions among individuals psychosocial development, their neurological and hormonal

Children learn by observing those around them, and if they are surrounded by aggression and violence then they are going to attempt to mimic those behaviors. In addition, a family environment filled with, “... coercive interactions between parents and their children and children themselves affect the behavior of all parties and contribute to the development of a hostile family environment - a true breeding ground for aggression” (Shaffer & Kipp, 2014). This clearly demonstrates the impact that an aggressive environment can have on a child’s

Those Risk factors are the impact of peers, developing pathways, of aggression. We explore these factors of violence in children and adolescents with attention to the original problem of violence to describe the difficulty, unanswered questions, and clinical relevance of the current findings of peer pressure leading to aggression. Interventions, including cognitive behavioral therapy, psychopharmacological treatment, and psychosocial treatment, are reviewed with serious recognition of the need to use multiple modalities with and to expand research to define optimal treatment for, potentially violent children and adolescents. The information considered for this review focuses on violence as defined as physical aggression toward other individuals. Other studies are included with wider definitions of violence because of their relevance to assessing the potential for violent behavior. © Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2004 although arrest rates for serious violent crimes and juvenile homicides have fallen from an all-time high in the mid-1990s, many adolescents and children remain involved in aggressive delinquent and violent behaviors such as physical fighting, bullying, using weapons, verbal threats of harm to others, and chronic impulsive aggression . In 1999, juveniles accounted for 16% of all violent crime arrests, and homicides committed by youth

In this study, the researchers were looking for a variable that may have been previously overlooked in determining early signs of violent behavior in infants. The idea of the experiment was to monitor pairs of infants and their vocabulary development, as well as the number of violent behaviors. 562 infants were chosen for the study. When the children are at 19 months of age, their parents were instructed to record the number of words that they had heard their children say. They were also asked to record the number of violent behaviors that they observed such as kicking, biting, stealing and bullying when interacting with others. The final results showed a “modest

S. Lee, J. Manganello, J. Rice, C. Taylor (2010) preformed a study to understand childhood aggression. The journal article of Mothers’ Spanking of 3-Year-Old Children and Subsequent Risk of Children’s Aggressive Behavior starts by saying that they are not the first to perform this research and many of studies have displayed connection between corporal punishment with children and child aggression. They are testing their research with new controlling factors, which have not been controlled together before. (Lee et al., 2010) The main goal of the article is to determine the association between the use of corporal punishment against 3-year-old children and recognize later aggressive behavior among those children.

Aggression can be found in children for a number of reasons. Those reasons can be because of the way they are brought up or the surroundings of their home or environment. In a study done by Lansford et. al. (2012) they examined if relational and physical aggressions in children are similar across different countries. Secondly, they addressed if there were gender differences in children’s relational and physical aggression. The nine countries they used for this study were China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand and the United States. The study began with children ranging in age from 7 to 10 years old from 1,410 families in all nine countries to answer questions about their relational and physical aggression.

Statistics indicate many aggressors at some point or another have witnessed acts of violence. During childhood, these observed behaviors can have a major impact and influence on adolescent and adult attitudes, perception of self and others. "Children become more susceptible and prone to negative and dangerous behaviors which can

Physical assault and aggression is the second leading cause of death among 14 to 17 year olds, next to vehicular accidents (Loeber). But why are humans so aggressive in the first place? There are two sides of the debate: Nature, and Nurture. Some say that it’s human nature, genetics that cause most behaviors, while others say that we act as we learned during childhood. This argument applies to aggression as well. Aggression is mainly caused by things during childhood and adolescence where people learn from various sources about aggression, although, human psychology plays a slight factor.