New Trends in the Study of Female Aggression

Björkqvist, Kaj; Niemelä, Pirkko

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-102590-8.50006-4

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“…Eagly and Steffen (1986) report that in general women are less likely to be physically aggressive and they are more likely to feel guilty about such behaviour than are men. Yet, when angered, when fear of retaliation is low, when the group norm is supportive of hostility, or when willingness to induce psychological harm is measured, women are equally or more aggressive than men (Bjorkqvist and Niemela, 1992;Eagly and Steffen, 1986;Hyde, 1984;Rabble, Goldenbeld and Lodewijkx, 1992). Certainly in the current research, women were quite willing to derogate a threat-relevant outgroup as a means of restoring esteem to a threatened and important social identity…”

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Collective self‐esteem consequences of outgroup derogation when a valued social identity is on trial

Branscombe

Wann

1994

Euro J Social Psych

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Collective self‐esteem consequences of outgroup derogation when a valued social identity is on trial

Branscombe

Wann

1994

Euro J Social Psych

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“…To some extent, the disparities between study findings may depend on the use of official records versus self-reports (GormanSmith, 2003). Evidence is fairly consistent however, that in adolescence, females are more likely than males to show direct aggression towards family members and partners (Heide, 2003;Robbins et al, 2003) and towards familiar females as opposed to strangers (Acoca, 1999;Bjo¨rkqvist and Niemala, 1992).…”

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Do We Know Which Interventions are Effective for Disruptive and Delinquent Girls?

Hipwell

Loeber

2006

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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Disruptive and delinquent girls are not well served by the mental health and juvenile justice systems. Interventions that have been developed for the behavior problems of boys are frequently applied to girls despite growing evidence for a female-specific phenotype, developmental course, and set of risk factors from middle childhood onwards. The current review demonstrates that evidence of the effectiveness of treatments for girls with disruptive and delinquent behaviors is extremely limited, with relatively few studies including sufficient numbers of females or reporting on treatment effects by gender. However, a small body of evidence suggests that interventions specifically designed to address female behavior problems or risk factors can be effective in ameliorating disruptive and delinquent behaviors in both pre-adolescence and adolescence. Multi-modal interventions that target interacting domains of risk also show promise. Methodological issues are discussed and recommendations are made for the development and evaluation of future interventions to prevent and reduce girls' disruptive and delinquent behavior.

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“…For example, commentators have noted evidence that there are as many within-group differences as there are between-group differences in a range of traits such as aggression (for example, Archer et al, 1988), and that 'sex differences' have been systematically exaggerated while any similarities between the two sexes have been minimized (Segal, 1990). Attention has also been drawn to the fact that many studies around aggression and violence have worked with narrow and male-centered definitions of aggression which, for instance, construct this in predominantly physical terms and presume that women do not usually indulge in such practices (see Bjorkqvist and Niemela, 1992;White and Kowalski, 1994). Consequently, a whole range of 'non-physical' (for example, verbal) acts have been screened out, so that much aggressive behaviour (physical and non-physical) displayed by women has been overlooked.…”

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Women Who Drink and Fight: A Discourse Analysis of Working-Class Women's Talk

Day

Gough

McFadden

2003

Feminism & Psychology

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More recent years have begun to see a shift in focus in academic writing towards the rather neglected topic of female aggression and violence (for example, Campbell, 1993(for example, Campbell, , 1995Burbank, 1994). Furthermore, some feminists have highlighted the benefits of drawing attention towards women's aggression for feminist agendas (for example, Campbell, 1993;White and Kowalski, 1994). However, much of the existing work in this area situates women's aggression in the context of normative heterosexual relationships and domestic domains, meaning that women's aggression and violence in other (more public) contexts is often overlooked. This omission is puzzling now given that women are entering into more public domains and spaces which have historically been dominated by men (for example, Kua, 1994) and reports that most incidents where women report being attacked by other women take place in the context of pubs or clubs (Home Office, 1993). As such, this study examines women's talk around aggression in the context of 'nights out'. In sum, it is argued here that physical aggression can be understood as playing an important role in the construction of working-class femininities in ways that 'make sense' in local classed contexts, thus emphasizing the importance of contextual understandings of women's aggression.

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New Trends in the Study of Female Aggression

Cited by 79 publications

References 18 publications

Collective self‐esteem consequences of outgroup derogation when a valued social identity is on trial

Collective self‐esteem consequences of outgroup derogation when a valued social identity is on trial

Do We Know Which Interventions are Effective for Disruptive and Delinquent Girls?

Women Who Drink and Fight: A Discourse Analysis of Working-Class Women's Talk

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