Parental Influence on Aggressive Children

The increasing levels of aggression that characterize modern societies creates an imperative for the development of an understanding of the causes of such behavior. This research is an effort to better understand the sources and causes of aggressive behavior in children.

Possibly the best approach to reducing the levels of violent behavior in society is the development within children of non violent approaches to problem solving. Parents are in the best position to influence the behavioral development of their children. This current research represents an attempt to discover what has been reported in the literature in relation to links between aggressive behavior by children and parental influences on children.

1. Bjorkqvist, K., & Osterman, K. (1992). Parental influence on children's self-estimated aggressiveness Aggressive Behavior, 18(6), 411-423.

This article reported on a study that measured parental influence on the self-estimated aggressiveness of a sample of adolescents. The sample was drawn from a Finnish population. The mean age of the members of the sample was 13.6 years. The size of the sample was 174 subjects, of which 85 (48.9 percent) were female and 89 (51.1 percent) were male. Subjects were asked to complete a questionnaire in which they evaluated both their own behavior and that of their parents when angry. Subjects were also asked to assess the emotional relat

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was found to be a powerful predictor of tendencies toward aggressive behavior by the children of the substance abusers. The combined abuse of alcohol and other substances was also found to be a reliable predictor of conduct-disorder behavior in the children of the substance abuser. The effect of paternal abuse of non alcohol substances was found to be a more powerful predictor of both aggression and conduct-disorder behavior in children than was the maternal abuse of either alcohol or non alcohol substances. Substance abuse by fathers was found to be more influential than that by mothers. 4. Herzberger, S. D., & Hall, J. A. (1993,). Consequences of retaliatory aggression against siblings and peers: Urban minority children's expectations. Child Development, 64(6), 1773-1785. The researchers compared the effects of expected (by children) parental reactions to aggressive retaliation by children against both siblings and peers as an inhibitor of such behavior. The research sample included 104 young persons aged 10-to-14 year sold. Of this total, 55 (52.9 percent) were female subjects and 49 (47.1 percent) were male subjects. The great majority of the subjects were either African-American or Hispanic American in racial and e
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