This author created a research study on twenty-seven boys and eight girls with autism and developmental disorders, she used thirty-five controls and were matched according to gender, age and total score intelligence and were studied to determine whether boys and girls with autism and developmental disorders display stronger reactive aggression than boys and girls without autism and developmental disorders.
The subjects were individuals that has been diagnosed with Autistic …show more content…
The aggressive behavior was tested using the Pulkkinen Aggression Machine that tests the moderation of reactive aggression against aggressors of different gender and age. In relation to the control group boys, the boys with autism and developmental disorders reacted with much more severe forms of aggression when subjected to mild aggressive assaults and did not consider a child aggressor's opposite sex an inhibitory factor. The girls with autism and developmental disorders, on the other hand, responded less aggressively than the girls without autism and developmental disorders. According to the outcomes boys with autism and developmental disorders may not follow the classic development in cognitive regulation of reactive aggression.
Most teen antipsychotic use aimed at age-limited aggression, in absence of psychotherapy. (2015). Brown University Child & Adolescent Behavior Letter, 31(8), 1-7 7p.
This was a study done by focusing on antipsychotic prescribing among young people ages 1 to 24, who struggle with some form of aggression, the study focused on …show more content…
L., Kohut, T., & Fisher, W. A. (2015). Is pornography use associated with anti-woman sexual aggression? Re-examining the Confluence Model with third variable considerations. Canadian Journal Of Human Sexuality, 24(2), 160-173 14p. doi:10.3138/cjhs.242-A6
Aggression towards healthcare providers in residential long-term care settings is well documented. However, insufficient research has been done in order to examine relations between aggressive behaviors towards care providers and organizational aspects.
This study was conducted in order to describe the rate of aggressive acts experienced by frontline staff working in two models of dementia care: Residential Alzheimer’s Care
Centers and Secured Dementia Units and to research the relations among aggressive acts experienced by frontline staff and reasons linked to the work environment and care providers. The survey included demographic items and questions about aggressive acts experienced by staff and contextual factors. Analyses included: descriptive statistics, tests of difference (i.e. Student’s t-test, Mann–Whitney U-test, chi-squared test and ANOVA), bivariate associations (i.e. Pearson and Spearman rank order correlations) and multivariate linear