In combat, anger becomes a new baseline and is promoted by peers as an acceptable means of militaristic motivation and coping with the atrocities of war. Unable to reconcile anger upon returning home, some veterans are forced to seek help via nontraditional paths. This interpretative phenomenological study explored the lived experience of male combat veterans who struggled with anger dysregulation issues and sought help from veteran peers on social media. Research questions were developed using the modal model of emotion as a guide for emotional dysregulation. Interviewed participants were invited to share lived experience of anger dysregulation, what help-seeking meant, and how they experienced using social media for management of anger dysregulation. Ten male combat veterans were recruited through snowballing and social media, they were interviewed via Skype. The results of the analyses revealed 7 major themes: emotional distress, shifting identity, reprisal, resistance to formal treatment, emotional reconciliation, social media use, and combat elitism. Participants shared beliefs that current support systems for anger dysregulation were neither fairly implemented nor effective for anger. Further revealed was that social media afforded veterans the opportunity to take advantage of anonymity, engage on their terms, rapidly target peers with similar combat and subsequent anger dysregulation experience, and learn how to rethink and reappraise to reconcile anger. This study contributes to an enhanced scholarly understanding of veterans'€™ nonconventional help-seeking approaches for anger dysregulation. Recommendations are provided to practitioners to support, promote, and be a voice for the voiceless to effect social change by advocating for and defending those who have defended the nation.

A child development laboratory in a university finds its first justification in its ability to contribute to the education of college students. After this justification has been established, the laboratory has a responsibility for serving the children enrolled in it.

The focus of the current study was to determine if SIP biases and perspective-taking serve as mediators between parental intimate partner violence (IPV), aggression, and interpersonal dominance in emerging adults' romantic relationships. We analyzed archival data comprised of self-report measures and TAT stories administered to 84 undergraduate students (women n = 62, M age = 21.73) between the ages 18 and 35. To test our hypotheses, we modified the social information processing model by incorporating perspective-taking, as measured through Interpersonal Decentering. Overall, we did not find significant association between witnessing parental IPV and Interpersonal Decentering maturity in college students. However, women's father-to-mother IPV was significantly negatively associated with Interpersonal Decentering maturity. For our mediation model, SIP aggressive responding biases were significantly associated with Interpersonal Decentering (average of story average scores) and with the presence of aggression in current romantic relationships; however, Interpersonal Decentering was not significantly predictive of aggression in current romantic relationships. Gender differences, study strengths and limitations, and future research directions are discussed.

This study, Relational Aggression, Middle School Girls, and the Development of Critical Consciousness, engaged both feminist theory and critical pedagogy as a means to deconstruct the issue of relational aggression among adolescent girls. The objective of this research was to contribute to the growing body of literature pertaining to relational aggression and fill some gaps in the literature surrounding preventative programming. This study investigated the experiences of middle school girls engaged in a solution- oriented approach in order to postulate possible program approaches and educational initiatives to decrease the prevalence of relational aggression in middle school girls. The collection and analysis of the data sought to describe a connection between girls’ participation in the program and developing critical consciousness about relational aggression, as well as strategies to address it in their lives. The qualitative data collected in this participatory action research show that relational aggression is much more than a mere “right of passage” or indicate that “mean girls” are a just a normal part of growing up. Relational aggression is harmful, has intense, negative short- and long-term effects, and—in the lives of the girls I have worked closely with—is very real, incredibly painful, and deeply personal. The findings of this study confirmed that girls benefit from the creation of educative environments, or “safe spaces,” where they can dialogue critically with one another about issues that are important to them; this is integral to their socioemotional development in middle school.

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Syftet med uppsatsen var att beskriva vilka faktorer som sjuksköterskor på akutmottagningar upplevde påverkade risken för aggression från patienter och närstående samt beskriva hur sjuksköterskor betraktade och behandlade aggressiva patienter.   Metoden som användes var en litteraturöversikt över studier med kvalitativ data om sjuksköterskors upplevelser. Artikelsökningar på sökorden aggression, nurs*, workplace violence, violence, threat, emergency department, Emergency Service, Hospital, emergency room, aggression och workplace violence gjordes i Cinahl complete samt Pubmed. Därefter utfördes en innehållsanalys på den kvalitativa datan från artiklarna.   I resultatet framkom två kategorier, Faktorer som påverkar risken för aggression samt Sjuksköterskors uppfattningar om aggressiva patienter och närstående. Sjuksköterskor uttryckte att det fanns flera olika faktorer som kunde påverka risken för patienter och närstående att bli aggressiva. Väntetider, information, alkoholpåverkan samt miljön på akutmottagningen var några som nämndes. Det framkom även att sjuksköterskor upplevde att den aggression som utövades av personer med sjukdomstillstånd var ursäktad och ibland inte ens sågs som våldsamt.   Studiens slutsats var att sjuksköterskor upplevde att riskfaktorerna för aggression var mångfacetterade. En personcentrerad vård med fokus på god omvårdnad, gott bemötande av och information till patienterna skulle kunna minska riskerna för att aggression och våld ens uppkommer.

Urbanization is one of the major causes of the global biodiversity crisis with reptiles being particularly vulnerable, due to factors such as habitat loss and road mortality. Behaviour plays a crucial role in determining the success of urban animals, but behavioural responses to urbanization are rarely studied in reptiles. I studied the differences in aggression, boldness, and exploration in painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) living in urban and undisturbed areas. I hypothesized that aggression, boldness, and exploration would increase in urban painted turtles. I studied painted turtles from 24 sites across an urban to undisturbed gradient in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada over the summers of 2021 and 2022. I captured turtles with hoop nets and tested their behaviour in the field, and the repeatability of their behaviour in the laboratory. I found that urbanization had a statistically significant, positive effect on painted turtle aggression and boldness, and no effect on exploration. Overall, I determined that urbanization is affecting painted turtle behaviour, but further research is required to better understand the factors behind this.

This dissertation explored the relationships among social injustice, social dominance orientation, aggression, and cyberbullying across Chinese and American populations. Direct effect and mediation models were proposed to test the explanatory power of perceived social injustice on the likelihood of cyberbullying. Twelve hypothesized social injustice scenarios written with first person perspective and based on three types of perceived social injustice (distributive, procedural, interactional), two social settings (pay, power), and two levels of injustice (high, low) were created to test four groups of hypotheses on the relationship between social factors and cyberbullying. Data were collected from an online survey site. A total of 639 Chinese participants and 484 American participants were randomly assigned to one of the 12 scenarios and then instructed to complete the survey based on the way they were treated in the scenarios. Participants were asked to report the level of their social dominance orientation, perceived injustice based on the scenarios, level of aggression, and likelihood of cyberbullying. Demographic characteristics of the participants were also recorded. Results revealed that (a) perceived distributive injustice positively predicts likelihood of cyberbullying among both American and Chinese participants, (b) perceived interactional injustice positively predicts the likelihood of cyberbullying only among Chinese participants, (c) the level of proactive aggression mediates the effect of perceived distributive injustice on the likelihood of cyberbullying, (d) the level of reactive aggression mediates the effect of perceived procedural and interactional injustices on the likelihood of cyberbullying, and (e) social dominance orientation negatively predicts three types of perceived social injustice and positively predicts the likelihood of cyberbullying. The theoretical and practical contributions of the dissertation are discussed. / Media & Communication