Search for dissertations about: "Aggressive Behavior"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 68 swedish dissertations containing the words Aggressive Behavior.
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1. Antisocial behavior in adolescence : the role of individual characteristics
Abstract : The main aim of this dissertation is to investigate whether traits on the level of the individual are important in understanding violent, frequent antisocial behavior among adolescents. The first of the four studies included in this dissertation asks whether individual-level explanations are going to be a fruitful approach at all. READ MORE
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2. Aggressive Antisocial Behavior: Risk Factors and Personality Profile
Abstract : Background: There is an increasing knowledge that violent criminality is restricted to a group of individuals with early onset of behavioral problems. These problems often emerge in combination with substance abuse and evolve into an antisocial personality disorder when the individual reaches adulthood. READ MORE
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3. Preschoolers' peer competence : Developmental perspectives on prosocial behavior, aggression, and social cognition
Abstract : This doctoral thesis explored three broad aspects of preschoolers’ social competence: prosocial behavior, aggression, and social cognition. The longitudinal study followed forty-four children (initially 22-40 months), who were observed in natural peer interactions at their daycare centers during a two-month period in each of three con-secutive years. READ MORE
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4. Aggressive antisocial behavior- clinical, cognitive, and behavioral covariates of its persistence
Abstract : Introduction Aggressive antisocial behavior is a major challenge to society, and studies on the determinants of its persistence are essential to the development of strategies to prevent violence. Aims & Methods The overall aim of the thesis was to establish covariates of persistent aggressive antisocial behavior in a population-based cohort and in clinically evaluated, prospectively followed, offender groups. READ MORE
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5. Disinhibitory and aggressive behavior in the rat. Neurohumoral mechanisms
Abstract : Effective pharmacological treatment for impulsive aggression and dysfunctional impulsive behavior is needed. These behavioral disturbences in man and impulsive-like and aggressive behavior in animals may involve serotonin (5-HT), noradrenaline (NA), GABAA receptors and steroid hormones, e.g. testosterone. READ MORE