Category: Aggression

Psychopathic behavior is associated with a construct of social and behavioral problems including violence, criminal activity, and overall failure to conform to social standards. In this study, psychopathic and antisocial personality disorder-based traits are measured. Using reliability and factor analyses were used to validate the inventory and create factor-based indices that were used to predict…

I believe being aggressive would have allowed the Native Americans to keep their culture, land, and freedom longer. Native Americans were forced into treaties and agreements that went against their beliefs. Americans then unfairly broke the agreements that were made and didnt follow through on the promises made to the Native Americans. The Native Americans…

Competition is one of the areas upon which self-esteem can be dependent and the vanity of people enormously relies upon greater heavily on their performance relative to others. Competition and competition might also share the equal simple DNA however they are not synonymous. While competition commonly stays goal and stakes-based on the other hand contention…

Deviance can be described as the diverging of what is seen as acceptable and the social standards set in our society it is seen in social and sexual behaviour. Deviance in sport can refer to purposely fouling an opponent to cause harm, the abuse of drugs and other forms of foul play like cheating. (BBC,…

Have you ever been so into a video game that you were playing you were literally spaced out of reality? Have you ever played a video game so long that you lost track of time? I know I have on more than one occasion. Have you ever wondered why you get so into a game…

At some point in their lives, everyone has played a video game. Also, most people have played a game that they would consider to be violent. Finally, you, like most people, have probably heard somewhere that video games cause people to be violent in the real world. According to a 2017 survey, roughly 61% of…

Media depicted violence has been around for over a century now and has evolved from literature to comics to film and finally to video games, and each stage of progression has been met with societal backlash. In the past ten years however, the rise in mass shootings has caused many politicians to point a finger…

Video games have increasingly become a favourite activity amongst a widespread of children and adolescents providing entertainment, social interaction and relaxation. The gaming industry has become a global phenomenon with an estimated worth last reported at $134.9 billion in 2018 (Batchelor, 2018). Video games are a programmed universe, which allows humans to interact with a…

In the last two decades, many educational scholars have written about nursing being an oppressed profession. Many nurses faced a lot of frustrations due to inadequate autonomy and power. Due to these frustrations, they tend to be aggressive among themselves. Horizontal aggression in nursing has been present from the onset of the nursing profession, thus…

According to studies, there is no rigid definition for aggression nor inter-group aggression and therefore it is defined according to the correspondent’s values. The behavior studied may differ from one researcher to another. Bandura (1973) defines aggression as behavior that results in personal injury or the injury of others in society and the destruction of…