THE IMPACT OF CHILD ABUSE ON AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR

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1 THE IMPACT OF CHILD ABUSE ON AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
Natalia E. Fares*, José M. Cabrera**, J. Martin Ramirez*** *Sociopsychobiology of Aggression Research Group, Psychobiology Department & Institute for Biofunctional Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), (Spain). **Economics Department, Universidad de Montevideo (UM), (Uruguay). ***Sociopsychobiology of Aggression Research Group, Psychobiology Department & Institute for Biofunctional Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), (Spain) & Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (USA). 5th Annual CICA – STR International Conference The University of California, Irvine, CA, USA September 9, 2011

2 Introduction With the aim of contributing to a deeper knowledge of the complex phenomenon of aggression, the present study examines how abused children justify aggression in different social situations. 43 maltreated children participated in this study. Control group: 86 non-abused children of the same age and sex, 43 of them from public shools (low socioeconomic level), and 43 of private schools (higher socioeconomic level). Children completed 2 self-report questionnaires: RPQ: designed to measure reactive and proactive agression questionnaire (Raine, Dodge, Loeber et al., 2006) CAMA: designed to measure the justification of eight aggressive acts in six social situations (CAMA, Ramírez, 1986). RESULTS.

3 Introduction Procedure and ethical aspects Etc

4 Descriptive statistics
The differences in age and %female between maltreated children and the control group are not statistically different from zero (p>0.10), so both groups are equal in these dimensions.

5 Reactive and Proactive Questionnaire
Maltreated present higher levels of both reactive and proactive aggression.

6 Reactive and Proactive Questionnaire
Females present lower levels of both reactive and proactive aggression.

7 Reactive and Proactive Questionnaire
No differences are found regarding age.

8 CAMA – acts

9 CAMA – acts

10 CAMA – acts

11 CAMA – situations Pego los resultados. Igual no los mostraría y diría simplemente que no hay diferencias entre maltratados y no-maltratados, ni por sexo ni por edad.

12 CAMA – situations Pego los resultados. Igual no los mostraría y diría simplemente que no hay diferencias entre maltratados y no-maltratados, ni por sexo ni por edad.

13 CAMA – situations Pego los resultados. Igual no los mostraría y diría simplemente que no hay diferencias entre maltratados y no-maltratados, ni por sexo ni por edad.

14 CAMA – physical and verbal

15 Título The same pattern is observed when we look WITHIN maltreated children, so these results are not presented.