tantino, 1996; Lamb, 1996).
Family styles of cognition have been found to enhance anxiousness and aggression in children. Anxious adults provide more threat interpretations of ambiguous stimuli; the same bias is found to occur in anxious children. Responses of avoidance and aggression are also passed on to children (Barrett, Rapee, Dadds, & Ryan, 1996).
Childhood aggression impacts later academic achievement, drug use, and workforce involvements. Brook and Newcomb (1995) found that long-term relations between early childhood aggression and adolescent problem behaviors are demonstrated. Adolescent drug use is found to result in early involvement with adult role behaviors such as work instead of further education.
Ferguson and Smith (1996) studied aggression and the elderly. It was found that violent or aggressive behavior may be a consequence of poor frustration tolerance, ineffective individual coping, impulsivity, and perceived threats to the individuals territory, body space, or life. Alzheim
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