Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls Case Study Konnie Sanders Daglis MSMC Dr. Linda Johnston September 17‚ 2006 Odd Girl Out 1 Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls (OGO) Case Study Consider a world where girls are not given a language or a manner to articulate their aggression‚ even the slightest feelings of aggression. In that world‚ petty issues erupt into all out wars of subtle
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Aggression is defined as “behaviour directed towards another individual carried out with immediate intent to cause harm.” {Anderson and Huesman‚ 2003} Explanations for aggressive behaviour fall under two main categories: the biological and social explanation. The biological explanations have three main approaches: psychodynamic theory‚ ethology and evolutionary social psychology. In contrast‚ the social explanations include: frustration-aggression hypothesis‚ excitation transfer model and social
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the risk factors for aggressive behavior—difficult temperament‚ ADHD‚ and learning disabilities which can be attributed to male hormones (Kaiser‚ 2007). Girls are less aggressive physically; instead girls display indirect aggression or what is known as relational or social aggression (Kaiser‚ 2007). Third‚ there is temperament. Temperamental traits emerge early stabilizing by the age of 3 through adulthood. The environment influence temperament‚ through biology based on the neurochemical influence
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Part 1 of 1 - 30.0 Points Question 1 of 30 1.0 Points A social skills autopsy involves parents’ identifying what children did wrong in the situation and then telling them how to avoid the problem in the future. A. True B. False Answer Key: False Question 2 of 30 1.0 Points From ages five to ten‚ boys and girls have approximately the same height and weight. A. True B. False Answer Key: True Question 3 of 30 1.0 Points Children know what is gender appropriate for boys and girls
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Web. 15 Nov. 2012. Farrington ‚ David P.‚ and Anna Costanza Baldry. "Individual risk factors for school bullying.." Journal of Aggression‚ Conflict & Peace Research 2.1 (2010): 4-16.EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2012. James‚ Deborah‚ Ann Flynn‚ Maria Lawlor‚ Pat Courtney ‚ Niamh Murphy‚ and Bernie Henry. "A Friend In Deed? Can Adolescent Girls Be Taught to Understand Relational Bullying?." Child Abuse Review 20.6 (2011): 439-454.EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2012. Min Jung‚ Kim‚ Richard F. Catalano‚ Kevin P. Haggerty
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victim. The percentage of bullying correlates to the way males and females act towards certain situations. Susan Swearer had found that women are more likely to threaten someone using relational aggression‚ for example‚ threatening to leave a relationship‚ whereas with men‚ they are more likely to use physical aggression (S. Swearer and D. Espelage‚ 2010). Women tend to act upon different situations calmly and would use their words instead of physically hurting someone. Behaviour patterns do not only
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violence (eg. “ how often have you seen somebody hitting another person at school?”) will increase the aggressive behaviour of children. The question will be assessed by using 21-item Exposure to Violence Scale. Researches also test the normative aggression beliefs of children by asking some kind of question (eg. “sometimes you have to hit others because they deserve it”) whether the
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"victims" of bullying. Bullying can be defined in many different ways. The UK currently has no legal definition of bullying‚ while some U.S. states have laws against it. Bullying consists of four basic types of abuse – emotional (sometimes called relational)‚ verbal‚ physical‚ and cyber. It typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as intimidation. Bullying ranges from simple one-on-one bullying to more complex bullying in which the bully may have one or more "lieutenants" who may seem to
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or old they are still a problem that needs to be stopped. Pamela Paul talks about Scarlet the daughter of an artist and about the bullying she goes through when she said‚ “Mean-girl behavior‚ typically referred to by professionals as relational or social aggression and by terrified parents as bullying has existed for as long as
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Aggression in Sport Daniel L Wann The Lancet. London: Dec 2005. Vol. 366 pg. S31‚ 2 pgs 1. Although there are many positive aspects to sport participation - as a player or spectator - athletic events are also often allied with aggressive behaviour. Defined as the intention to physically‚ verbally‚ or psychologically harm someone who is motivated to avoid such treatment‚ aggression can be either hostile or instrumental. Hostile aggression refers to actions that are motivated by anger and that
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