Aggressive and Violent Behavior and Emotional Self‐Efficacy: Is There a Relationship for Adolescents?

Abstract

Results have implications for school- and community-based mental health services and social and emotional learning and aggression/violence prevention programs for adolescents. Measures of ESE as a component of comprehensive assessments of adolescent mental health, social and emotional learning and aggressive/violent behaviors in fieldwork, research, and program-evaluation efforts should be considered.

Predicting Effects of the Self and Contextual Factors on Violence: A Comparison between School Students and Youth Offenders in Macau

“…To change the negative self-image, rebuilding of positive self-identity would prevent them from going astray. Since Macau has already established Community Youth Work Teams whose social workers outreach to different neighborhoods to help at-risk youths [ 3 ], the teams should continue the services that aim to prevent youth from participating in gang activities or shorten their gang life through social and emotional learning and violence prevention programs [ 17 , 42 , 45 , 74 ]. Further studies need to be conducted to assess the effectiveness of different services provided to at-risk youth, and different working approaches adopted for helping these individuals, during a time of rapid social change when the gaming industry ignites the disruptions in the economic structure, thus undermining family cohesion and narrowing the career path of young people in Macau.…”

“…Aggressive youth have been shown to be more likely to hold violent attitudes and less likely to believe that conflict resolution could be achieved without violence [ 16 ]. Research suggests that reduced emotional self-efficacy is significantly associated with being threatened or injured with a weapon at school or bringing a weapon to school [ 17 ], and that perceived self-regulatory efficacy contributed to violent conduct both concurrently and longitudinally after controlling for prior level of violent conduct and openness of parental communication [ 18 ]. Psychopathic traits were found to be related to delinquent behavior in high risk youth and general youth population [ 19 , 20 , 21 ] Significant associations were found between youth psychopathic traits and conduct disorder, drug use, alcohol use, age of criminal onset, crime seriousness, and violent crimes [ 20 ].…”

Perbedaan Tingkat Perilaku Agresi Berdasarkan Jenis Kelamin pada Siswa Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Kota Yogyakarta

“…Menurut penelitian lain, emotional self-efficacy juga turut menyumbang pada munculnya perilaku agresi siswa (Valois, Zullig, & Revels, 2017). Berdasarkan penelitian tersebut dapat dipahami bahwa siswa yang memiliki kemampuan mengelola emosi yang baik akan memiliki kecenderungan untuk mampu meminimalisir munculnya perilaku agresi.…”

Self-Regulation of Emotion in Students in Yogyakarta Indonesia: Gender Differences

“…However, many adolescent are in fact unable to control their emotions and this condition is known as aggressive behavior (García-Sancho, Salguero, & Fernández-Berrocal, 2017;Huesmann et al, 2017;Sullivan, Garthe, Goncy, Carlson, & Behrhorst, 2017;Valois, Zullig, & Revels, 2017) and bullying (Jenkins, Demaray, & Tennant, 2017;Zych, Farrington, Llorent, & Ttofi, 2017). Aggressive behavior is a problem that needs more attention.…”