Psychopathy is an extensively researched personality disorder that has traditionally been considered important to study because of the high rates of the disorder in forensic populations. However, an increasing number of studies have turned to examining the disorder in community samples to better understand the relationships between psychopathic traits and outcomes for nonincarcerated individual...

Urban 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...

a r t i c l e i n f o To address the longitudinal relation between adolescents' habitual usage of media violence and aggressive behavior and empathy, N = 1237 seventh and eighth grade high school students in Germany completed measures of violent and nonviolent media usage, aggression, and empathy twice in twelve months. Cross-lagged panel analyses showed significant pathways from T1 media viole...

The research examined the role of self-compassion and self-criticism as moderators mediators in relationship between relational aggression victimization depression. Victimization had various negative consequences, one which could be However, few previous studies moderator mediator variables victimized On other hand, potentially experiences used a cross-sectional approach involving 492 adolescen...

Title of Dissertation: MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF PEER VICTIMIZATION AND THEIR RELATIONS WITH CHILDREN’S PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL, AND ACADEMIC FUNCTIONING Sarah K. Parsons, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation directed by: Professor Hedwig Teglasi Department of Counseling and Personnel Services This study investigated the relations among victimization and psychological, social, behavio...