Influence of Attitudes toward Violence and Motor Impulsiveness on the Violent Behavior of Adolescents at School

Abstract

Background: School violence during adolescence has become a major issue worldwide. Both impulsiveness and adolescents’ attitudes toward violence will influence violent behavior against peers at school. Our objective is to study the influence of motor impulsiveness and attitudes on adolescents’ violent behavior at school, as well as to assess sex and age differences. Methods: Cluster sampling was performed, obtaining a sample of 513 adolescents between 13 and 19 years from four centers of secondary education. Results: A strong relationship is found between violent school behavior, defined as relational and overt aggression, and attitudes towards violence perceived as legitimate defense and violence used to cope with problems and social relations. The results showed significant sex differences favoring the boys in all the variables studied, except for motor impulsiveness and relational aggression. In terms of age, we found significant differences only for motor impulsiveness, favoring the older age group (≥15 years). The current findings may provide an important core of evidence to support forensic decision making in pre-trial and court settings, and further contribute to recidivism prevention.

Violencia familiar en el comportamiento académico reactivo adolescente: una revisión sistemática

“…Investigaciones anteriores demuestran que estas conductas (comportamiento académico reactivo) son patrones repetitivos que se manifiestan en determinados momentos y que si no son controlados a tiempo se constituyen en severos problemas de conducta (bullying, ciber bullying, agresiones, etc.) y aprendizaje; el mismo que genera desadaptación social y psicológica (Pina et al, 2022). Estas se encuentran asociadas a la prolongada exposición de violencia (Perry et al, 2021); los estudios sobre violencia familiar han reflejado su injerencia en problemas académicos que imposibilitan el correcto desarrollo del adolescente (S. D. Li et al, 2021) y conlleva a la práctica de actitudes violentas junto con problemas psicosociales (Tapullima-Mori et al, 2023).…”