Premeditated aggression: clinical assessment and cognitive psychophysiology

Stanford, Matthew S.; Houston, Rebecca J.; Villemarette-Pittman, Nicole R.; Greve, Kevin W.

doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(02)00070-3

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“…While the PM factor showed relationships with four measures of personality and impaired function: Psychoticism (EPQ-J), and Anger, Verbal Aggression, and Physical Aggression (BPAQ), the IA factor in these adolescents included relationships with ten of the measures of personality and impaired function: Neuroticism and Psychoticism (EPQ-J), Physical Aggression and Anger (BPAQ), and a variety of emotional, thought, and social adjustment problems (YSR). Overall, these findings support the assertion that those who emit predominantly impulsive-type aggression exhibit more impaired functioning across a variety of domains related to thought, emotional regulation, and personality (Dodge et al, 1997;Waschbusch et al, 1998), while predominantly premeditated types of aggressors have a relatively focused personality disturbance (Houston et al, 2003;Stanford et al, 2003b).…”

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confidence: 76%

“…For instance, adults with premeditated aggression have relatively normal performance on tests of executive function (Stanford et al, 2003b), and they emit an appropriate level of cortical activation on physiological measures (Raine et al, 1998;Stanford et al, 2003b). However, relative to impulsive aggressors, adults with premeditated aggression score high on measures of psychopathic traits (e.g., callousness and unemotionality; Cornell et al, 1996), and their aggressive behavior is largely unresponsive to pharmacological intervention (Barratt et al, 1997a).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Characterizing aggressive behavior with the Impulsive/Premeditated Aggression Scale among adolescents with conduct disorder

Mathias

Stanford

Marsh

et al. 2007

Psychiatry Research

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This study extends the use of the Impulsive/Premeditated Aggression Scale for subtyping aggressive behavior among adolescents with Conduct Disorder. Of the Conduct Disorder symptoms, aggression has the strongest prognostic and treatment implications. While aggression is a complex construct, convergent evidence supports a dichotomy of impulsive and premeditated aggressive subtypes that are qualitatively different from one another in terms of phenomenology and neurobiology. Previous attempts at measuring subtypes of aggression in children and adults are not clearly generalizable to adolescents. Sixty-six adolescents completed a questionnaire for characterizing aggression (Impulsive/Premeditated Aggression Scale), along with standard measures of personality and general functioning. Principal components analysis demonstrated two stable factors of aggression with good internal consistency and construct validity. Compared to the premeditated aggression factor, the impulsive aggression factor was associated with a broader range of personality, thought, emotional, and social problems. As in the adult and child literature, characterization of aggressive behavior into two subtypes appears to be relevant to understanding individual differences among adolescents with Conduct Disorder.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Characterizing aggressive behavior with the Impulsive/Premeditated Aggression Scale among adolescents with conduct disorder

Mathias

Stanford

Marsh

et al. 2007

Psychiatry Research

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“…Many studies show an inverse association between self-control and aggression (e.g., Archer & Southall, 2009;Archer & Webb, 2006' Stanford, et al, 2003.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(1) stated costs and benefits of aggressive acts (Archer & Southall, 2009;Archer, Fernández-Fuertes, & Thanzami, 2010;Rutter & Hine, 2005), (2) instrumental and expressive beliefs about aggression (Archer & Haigh, 1997a;Archer & Graham-Kevan, 2003;Campbell, Muncer & Gorman., 1992), (3) self-control (Stanford, Houston, Villemarette-Pitman, & Greve, 2003), (4) empathy (e.g. Jolliffe & Farrington, 2004), (5) anxiety (e.g., Taft et al, 2006) and (5) psychopathic traits (e.g., Reidy, Zeichner & Martinez, 2008).…”

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Do the same risk and protective factors influence aggression toward partners and same‐sex others?

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Archer

Graham‐Kevan

2016

Aggressive Behavior

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“…The revised Life Events Checklist for DSM-5 (LEC-5) is administered in combination with the PCL-5 to screen for potentially traumatic events. Severity of aggressive symptoms in the past six months is assessed with the 30-item impulsive/premeditated aggression scale (IPAS) (Stanford, Houston, Villemarette-Pittman, & Greve, 2003). Additionally, reactive and proactive aggressive symptoms in the past six months are assessed with the reactive proactive aggression questionnaire (RPQ) (Raine et al, 2006).…”

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The role of automatic defensive responses in the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms in police recruits: protocol of a prospective study

Koch

Klumpers

Zhang

et al. 2017

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Control over automatic tendencies is often compromised in challenging situations when people fall back on automatic defensive reactions, such as freeze – fight – flight responses. Stress-induced lack of control over automatic defensive responses constitutes a problem endemic to high-risk professions, such as the police. Difficulties controlling automatic defensive responses may not only impair split-second decisions under threat, but also increase the risk for and persistence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. However, the significance of these automatic defensive responses in the development and maintenance of trauma-related symptoms remains unclear due to a shortage of large-scale prospective studies. Objective: The ‘Police-in-Action’ study is conducted to investigate the role of automatic defensive responses in the development and maintenance of PTSD symptomatology after trauma exposure. Methods: In this prospective study, 340 police recruits from the Dutch Police Academy are tested before (wave 1; pre-exposure) and after (wave 2; post-exposure) their first emergency aid experiences as police officers. The two waves of data assessment are separated by approximately 15 months. To control for unspecific time effects, a well-matched control group of civilians (n = 85) is also tested twice, approximately 15 months apart, but without being frequently exposed to potentially traumatic events. Main outcomes are associations between (changes in) behavioural, psychophysiological, endocrine and neural markers of automatic defensive responses and development of trauma-related symptoms after trauma exposure in police recruits. Discussion: This prospective study in a large group of primary responders enables us to distinguish predisposing from acquired neurobiological abnormalities in automatic defensive responses, associated with the development of trauma-related symptoms. Identifying neurobiological correlates of (vulnerability for) trauma-related psychopathology may greatly improve screening for individuals at risk for developing PTSD symptomatology and offer valuable targets for (early preventive) interventions for PTSD.

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Premeditated aggression: clinical assessment and cognitive psychophysiology

Cited by 97 publications

References 11 publications

Characterizing aggressive behavior with the Impulsive/Premeditated Aggression Scale among adolescents with conduct disorder

Characterizing aggressive behavior with the Impulsive/Premeditated Aggression Scale among adolescents with conduct disorder

Do the same risk and protective factors influence aggression toward partners and same‐sex others?

The role of automatic defensive responses in the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms in police recruits: protocol of a prospective study

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