Anxiety Symptoms Account for the Link between Reactive Aggression and Sleep Problems Among Latino Adolescents

Fite, Paula J.; Becker, Stephen P.; Rubens, Sonia L.; Cheatham-Johnson, Randi J.

doi:10.1007/s10566-014-9288-4

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“…Given the impulsive nature of both reactive aggression and delinquency, compared to the planful, deliberate behavior characteristic of proactive aggression [70–72], the current findings are not surprising. The limited research looking at aggression subtypes and delinquency in relation to sleep has found poor sleep to be associated with reactive but not proactive aggression [9, 71, 73] as well as with risk-taking delinquent behavior [74, 75]. The current study furthers this literature by looking at self-reported sleep quality and aggression subtypes in addition to delinquency in a sample of school-age youth.…”

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Self-Reported Time in Bed and Sleep Quality in Association with Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in School-Age Youth

Rubens

Evans

Becker

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Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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This study investigated the relationship between self-reported time in bed and sleep quality in association with self-reported internalizing and externalizing symptoms in a sample of 285 elementary school students (52% female) recruited from a rural Midwestern elementary school. Path models were used to estimate proposed associations, controlling for grade level and gender. Curvilinear associations were found between time in bed and anxiety, depressive symptoms, and irritability. Marginal curvilinear trends were found between time in bed and emotion dysregulation, reactive aggression, and proactive aggression. Sleep quality was negatively associated with anxiety, depressive symptoms, irritability, reactive aggression, and delinquency engagement. Gender and grade differences were found across models. Findings suggest that examining self-reported time in bed (both linear and quadratic) and sleep quality is important for understanding internalizing and externalizing symptoms associated with sleep in school-age youth. Incorporating self-reported sleep assessments into clinical practice and school-based evaluations may have implications for a child’s adjustment.

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Self-Reported Time in Bed and Sleep Quality in Association with Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in School-Age Youth

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Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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“…In conditions with substance use disorders, others have shown that the total scores on the Barrat Impulsivity Scale (BIS) [11] [44] may predict violence [45]. Furthermore, anxiety symptoms seem to account for the link between reactive aggression and sleep problems among Latino adolescents [46]. Taken together, there is growing evidence for the existence of subgroups of aggression, which in some anxiety and impulsivity levels may identify at-risk behavior [27].…”

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“…We are unable to offer an explanation for the lack of correlation between the inmates' symptoms scores for anxiety and scores for physical or verbal aggression in this study, but a lack of clinically significant anxiety cannot be ruled out. A relationship between anxiety and aggression may not necessarily be direct as indicated by studies showing that anxiety symptoms seem to account for the link between reactive aggression and sleep problems [46] and that anxiety may act as a mediator in some cases of physical aggression [14].…”

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The Link between Facets of Impulsivity and Aggression in Extremely Violent Prisoners

Værøy¹,

Western²,

Andersson

2016

OJPsych

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Evidence is growing that aggressive behavior and impulsivity have subgroups. The subscales of the Urgency, Premeditation, Perseverance and Sensation seeking (UPPS) impulsivity scale and the Bryant and Smith shortened and refined version of the Aggression Questionnaire were used to describe and compare impulsive and aggressive behavior in extremely violent and aggressive male inmates and non-violent healthy male controls. The Mann-Whitney test showed that there was a significant difference (p < 0. 006) in the total UPPS impulsivity scale scores between the aggressive inmates and the controls. The subscales revealed that this difference was based mainly on the urgency score (p < 0. 003). On the aggression subscales, the inmates scored significantly higher for physical aggression than the controls (p < 0.001), but no significant difference was seen between inmates and controls for verbal aggression, anger and hostility, although the exact pvalue was very close to statistical significance at 0.054. Regression analysis revealed a strong relationship between urgency and the aggression subscales hostility (p = 0.0004) and anger (p = 0.003) and that urgency was also linked to symptoms of anxiety (p = 0.008). Finally, a statistically significant link was found between both hostility (p = 0.0003) and anger (p = 0.002) and symptoms of anxiety. The highly selected subgroup of extremely violent criminals in this study were more physically aggressive than non-violent controls, with urgency as the driving feature in their impulsive behavior, and hostility, anger and symptoms of anxiety as underlying traits.

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“…Además, el "jet lag social" se asociaría también a la agresión física, y las personas "orientadas hacia la tarde" ("eveningness") se percibían así mismas como más agresivas. Dos de los estudios correlacionales utilizaron como medida de la conducta agresiva la agresión reactiva (Vaughn et al, 2015;Fite et al, 2015). Ambos trabajos encontraron que el sueño deficiente y la agresión reactiva se hallarían significativamente asociados.…”

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VI Jornadas de Investigación de la Facultad de Psicología y Logopedia: Libro de contribuciones

Peña¹

2023

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Libro de contribuciones de las ponencias desarrolladas en las VI Jornadas de Investigación de la Facultad de Psicología y Logopedia de la Universidad de Málaga celebradas en este centro durante los días 8 y 9 de marzo de 2023. En este libro se presentan los manuscritos completos de algunos de los mejores Trabajos Fin de Grado y Fin de Máster de la Facultad de Psicología y Logopedia realizados en la Universidad de Málaga, así como algunos de los trabajos que se están llevando a cabo en diferentes grupos de investigación pertenecientes a este centro.

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Anxiety Symptoms Account for the Link between Reactive Aggression and Sleep Problems Among Latino Adolescents

Abstract: Background Sleep problems are common among adolescents and have a negative

Cited by 7 publications

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Self-Reported Time in Bed and Sleep Quality in Association with Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in School-Age Youth

Self-Reported Time in Bed and Sleep Quality in Association with Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in School-Age Youth

The Link between Facets of Impulsivity and Aggression in Extremely Violent Prisoners

VI Jornadas de Investigación de la Facultad de Psicología y Logopedia: Libro de contribuciones

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