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- Title
Association of normative beliefs and anger with aggression and antisocial behavior in Russian male juvenile offenders and high school students.
- Authors
Sukhodolsky, Denis G.; Ruchkin, Vladislav V.
- Abstract
Examined the association of anger experience and two types of normative beliefs with physical aggression and nonaggressive antisocial behavior in 361 juvenile offenders and 206 high school students in Russia. All participants were male and ranged in age from 14 to 18 years. Higher frequency of aggressive acts was significantly associated with higher levels of anger and stronger beliefs that physical aggression is an appropriate course of action in conflicts. After statistically controlling for nonaggressive antisocial behavior, the relationship between physical aggression and antisocial beliefs was not significant. Similarly, with physical aggression controlled, nonaggressive antisocial behavior was uniquely associated with approval of deviancy, but not with anger or beliefs legitimizing aggression. Juvenile offenders reported higher levels of anger experience and higher frequency of aggression and antisocial behavior compared to high school students. There were no differences in normative beliefs between these two groups. This specificity of association of social-cognitive and emotion-regulation processes to aggressive and nonaggressive forms of antisocial behavior may be relevant to understanding the mechanisms of cognitive-behavioral therapy for conduct disorder and antisocial behavior.
- Subjects
JUVENILE delinquency; AGGRESSION (Psychology) in adolescence; ANTISOCIAL personality disorders; HIGH school students; COGNITIVE therapy; CONDUCT disorders in adolescence; ADOLESCENT psychology
- Publication
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2004, Vol 32, Issue 2, p225
- ISSN
0091-0627
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1023/B:JACP.0000019773.86910.fe