Constructive and Destructive Behavior
Implications for Family, School and Society
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-1-55798-740-2 (ISBN)
Description
How does certain behaviour develop? If it is constructive, how can it be promoted? Conversely, how can destructive behaviour be controlled? This study fuses the work of scolars in educational, developmental, clinical, social and personality psychology to explore these complex questions. This collection of empirically grounded chapters explores theory and experimantal findings on the gamut of what influences prosocial and antisocial expression, finally laying to rest the simplistic debates about whether media violence causes real violence or whether catharsis is good. Scientists and practitioners will gain perspectives on the context within which these behaviours thrive: how empathy develops, how self-control in childhood predicts adult behaviour, how age and sex influence bullying, whether early intervention can prevent delinquency, and how school success lays the groundwork for constructive lives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55798-740-2 (9781557987402)
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Content
Aggression and Attachment - the Folly of Separatism, Robert B. Cairns and Beverly D. Cairns; Seeing is Believing - How Viewing Violence Alters Attitudes and Aggressive Behaviour, L.D. Eron; Toward a Comprehensive Empathy-Based Theory of Prosocial Moral Development, Martin L. Hoffman; Institutionalized Aggression - Cultural and Individual Factors that Support War, Robert A. Hinde; Prosocial Development in Context, Paul Mussen; Constructive and Destructive Elements of Shame and Guilt, June Price Tangeny; Self-Reported Empathy in Norwegian Adolescents - Sex Differences, Age Trends and Relationships to Bullying, Inger M. Endresen and Dan Olweus; Reveller or Striver? - How Childhood Self-Control Predicts Adult Social Behaviour, Lea Pulkkinen; Prosocial Behaviour and Aggression in Childhood and Pre-Adolescence, Caprara Gian Vittorio, Barbaranelli Claudio and Pastorelli Concetta; Designing a Method to Assess Empathy in Italian Children, Paulo Alberio and Aida Lo Coco; Can Early Childhood Intervention Prevent Deliquency? - a Real Possibility, Edward Zigler; Cognitive Processes and the Development of Aggression, L. Rowell Huesmann; How to Think, Not What to Think - a Problem-Solving Approach to Prevention of Early High-Risk Behaviours; Pathways to Constructive Lives - the Importance of Early School Success, Deborah Stipek; Catharsis as a Constructive Expression of Destructive Affect - Developmental and Clinical Perspectives, Jonathan Bloom-Feshbach and Sally Bloom-Feshbach.