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{"title":"External workplace violence towards police officers: A scoping review","authors":"Tamara Pritz,&nbsp;Shihning Chou","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2025.102036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2025.102036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Existing research on public violence against the police is limited. This scoping review aimed to offer an overview of the characteristics and the findings of existing primary research, identifying methodological and knowledge gaps to inform future research. It followed Joanna Briggs Institute scoping review guidelines, with a protocol established before the review started. Relevant citations were searched and screened based on predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The data of the included publications were charted with a pre-defined template and then synthesized narratively.</div><div>The initial de-duplicated electronic searches returned 796 citations. An additional 29 relevant citations were found through hand searching. Overall, 62 publications met the inclusion criteria. Areas covered included characteristics of victimized officers, perpetrators, and situations; impacts on officers and organizations; comparisons with other occupations; socio-political factors; and methodologies used. It was found that police officers face various forms of external workplace violence, including verbal abuse, threats, and physical violence, sometimes fatal. Most victim officers were younger males, with higher levels of victimization involving minor physical violence and verbal threats. Despite some common findings on situational and environmental correlates, there is no definitive profile of individuals who assault police officers or consistent predictors for serious violence. Research mostly used quantitative secondary analyses of organizational and government databases with limited primary research found. Research focused more on the extent and the correlates of external workplace violence than impacts, interventions, or prevention. Increased use of mixed-methods and qualitative research is suggested to better understand the phenomenon and develop appropriate prevention and welfare programs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 102036"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143350041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The dark sides of the brain: A systematic review and meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies on trait aggression","authors":"Jules R. Dugré ,&nbsp;Christian J. Hopfer ,&nbsp;Drew E. Winters","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2025.102035","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2025.102035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Aggression is a worldwide issue that has significant consequences for both the victims and societies. However, aggression may vary in its underlying motivation (i.e., reactive versus proactive) and the forms in which it occurs (i.e., physical versus verbal). Yet, functional brain correlates differentiating these types remains largely unknown. A systematic search was conducted up to May 1st 2023, using PubMed, Google Scholar, and Web of Science, to identify relevant functional neuroimaging studies that included measures of General Aggression, Reactive Aggression, Proactive Aggression, Physical Aggression and Verbal Aggression. Coordinate-based meta-analysis was conducted using both spatial convergence (ALE) and effect-size (SDM-PSI) approaches. Sixty-seven functional neuroimaging studies met the inclusion criteria. Meta-analysis revealed similar yet distinct neural correlates for General Aggression (i.e., Amygdala, Precuneus, Intraparietal Sulcus, Angular and Middle Temporal Gyri), Reactive Aggression (i.e., Amygdala, Periaqueductal Grey, Posterior Insula, &amp; Central Opercular Cortex), Proactive Aggression (i.e., Septal Area, &amp; Amygdala), Physical Aggression (i.e., Dorsal Premotor Cortex, Dorsal Caudate, &amp; Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex), and Verbal (i.e., Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex). Exploratory analyses revealed the importance of affective, cognitive and social cognition processes as well as serotoninergic, dopaminergic, and cholinergic systems in the neural underpinnings of aggressive behaviors. Our findings highlight the importance of examining the types of aggression (i.e., motivation and forms) within a transdiagnostic framework. Therefore, characterizing the neurobiological substrates of aggression may expand our search for targeted neuromodulation and pharmacological treatments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 102035"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143210750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effectiveness of Virtual Reality interventions for aggression, anger and impulsiveness: A multilevel meta-analysis","authors":"David Roncero,&nbsp;Román D. Moreno-Fernández,&nbsp;Álvaro Fernández-Moreno","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2025.102034","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2025.102034","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Interventions based on Virtual Reality (VR) appear to be a promising option for the treatment of aggression, enabling the creation of immersive simulations for individuals to learn and practice strategies in a controlled and supervised environment.</div><div>The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of VR interventions in reducing anger, aggression and impulsiveness. A systematic search produced eleven valid articles for a meta-analysis consisting of a total sample of 479 participants aged 26.37 ± 18.5, of whom 88.1 % were men.</div><div>The study found a statistically significant reduction in observer reported aggression (<em>g</em> = −0.27; <em>p</em> = 0.029), self-reported aggression (<em>g =</em> −0.47; <em>p</em> &lt; 0.001), anger (<em>g</em> = −0.74; <em>p</em> = 0.005) and impulsiveness (<em>g</em> = −0.47; <em>p</em> &lt; 0.001). Regarding the possible improvement over conventional therapies or waiting list control groups, the weighted mean difference analysis revealed a significant overall effect favouring VR intervention over the control groups (<em>g</em> = −1.05; <em>p</em> = 0.003), although specific analysis for the different outcomes could not be conducted due to the limited number of studies reporting control group data.</div><div>These results suggest that the use of VR can be effective in reducing aggression, anger and impulsiveness. Differences in effectiveness may be partially explained by the heterogeneity of the interventions and study samples. The possible biases of the selected studies and the limitations of the meta-analysis itself are considered. Future research may use these findings to optimise the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions using VR.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 102034"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143077652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editors' introduction","authors":"David Weisburd ,&nbsp;Beidi Dong","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2025.102033","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2025.102033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 102033"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142990227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The school bullying research program: How it has developed, 1976-2020","authors":"Robert Slonje,&nbsp;Peter K. Smith,&nbsp;Susanne Robinson","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2025.102032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2025.102032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Several bibliometric analyses have commented on the rapid growth of research on bullying, and especially school bullying, over recent decades. There is now an international research effort, which might be called a research program, with several articles appearing on a daily basis. We review the previous bibliometric studies on school bullying and cyberbullying, which have mainly used the Web of Science database. To examine the content of research articles on bullying, we report an extension of previous research (Smith et al. 2021) to an examination of randomly selected samples of 100 journal articles relevant to school bullying over each of four time periods: 1976–95, 1996–2005, 2006–2015 and 2016–2020. Besides the number and country/continent of authors, and proportion of cross-country studies, we report on the type of article. For empirical articles, we report on the type of study (cross-sectional, longitudinal), type of data (quantitative, qualitative), source of data (e.g., self-reports, peer-reports, teacher nominations), main data focus (definitions/methodology, prevalence, correlates, attitudes, coping, cross-national), different types of bullying, various peer roles (bully, victim, bystanders etc.), differences in bullying (age, gender, ethnicity, disability), prejudice-based bullying, correlates of roles (e.g., individual, family, school, societal factors), peer roles, significant others, and interventions. We summarise what this analysis tells us about the development and focus of this research program, and some challenges the program faces in the future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 102032"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143095003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Primary prevention of harmful sexual behaviors by children and young people: A systematic review and narrative synthesis","authors":"Douglas Hugh Russell ,&nbsp;Sebastian Trew ,&nbsp;Rhiannon Smith ,&nbsp;Daryl John Higgins ,&nbsp;Kerryann Walsh","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>From a public health perspective, strategies for addressing children's harmful sexual behaviors often focus on secondary or tertiary prevention rather than primary prevention. Prevention efforts have also typically focused on preventing victimization by adults; yet a high proportion of child sexual abuse is perpetrated by other children and young people. We systematically reviewed the research on primary prevention strategies for harmful sexual behaviors in children and young people. We searched 6 databases, extracted data relating to program setting and focus, participant demographics, outcomes measured, and program success., We conducted a narrative synthesis in line with the SwiM guidelines (Popay et al., c2006), and conducted individual quality assessments of the included studies. 20 studies met our inclusion criteria. Primary prevention strategies were typically implemented in schools with primary/elementary, middle, and high school aged students. All programs included harmful sexual behavior within broader abuse prevention programs. Program effects were mixed. Primary-level prevention of harmful sexual behavior is typically addressed through broader sexual violence prevention programs. Around three-quarters of studies evaluating program efficacy found improvements in the outcomes measured, including some behavioral outcomes. Important to program success was who facilitated the program, as well as students' feeling of school connections. We found no evaluations of programs aimed at reducing harmful sexual behavior perpetrated online. Important new directions in program development will be to: (i) address the needs of younger children, as well as youth with disabilities, neurocognitive differences, and who are gender or sexually diverse; (ii) introduce and reinforce the concept that sexual behaviors exist on a continuum from healthy to harmful, providing clear examples; (iii) focus on both preventing perpetration <em>and</em> victimization; (iv) address strategies to support safe environments—in homes, organizations, communities, and online; and (e) identify essential elements for successful harmful sexual behavior prevention and align prevention programs with these features.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 102022"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142968131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Executive functions and aggression in “hot” and “cold” contexts: Two meta-analyses","authors":"Olivia Choy ,&nbsp;Gary Tan ,&nbsp;Josanne D.M. van Dongen","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102024","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although executive function (EF) deficits have been documented to be a risk factor for aggressive behavior, little is known about the hot and cold components of these cognitive processes and their links with reactive and proactive aggression. Two meta-analyses were conducted on studies that included a performance-based measure of EF and a measure of reactive aggression (37 independent samples; <strong><em>n</em></strong> = 5427) or proactive aggression (16 independent samples; <strong><em>n</em></strong> = 4243). Subgroup analyses and meta-regression were also performed. Reduced EF was more strongly associated with reactive (<em>g</em> = −0.45) than proactive aggression (<em>g</em> = −0.14), with the majority of studies assessing EF in cold contexts. Moderation analysis revealed significantly larger effect sizes in studies that assessed reactive aggression using a categorical approach by comparing individuals who engaged in aggressive behavior with control groups. The limited body of research on hot EF in relation to reactive and proactive aggression indicates a need for further investigations of EF in hot contexts. Findings add to our knowledge about EF as a neurocognitive correlate of reactive and proactive aggression and point to the possibility of targeting deficits in cold EF to reduce aggression.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102024"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142929200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neuroprediction of violence and criminal behavior using neuro-imaging data: From innovation to considerations for future directions","authors":"Josanne D.M. van Dongen ,&nbsp;Yudith Haveman ,&nbsp;Carmen S. Sergiou ,&nbsp;Olivia Choy","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Violent conduct in society is a major health concern, and therefore one of the major aims in forensic mental healthcare is the assessment of the risk for (future) violence. The prediction of violence risk is traditionally done by using violence risk assessment tools in the form of actuarial instruments and structured professional judgments. However, research has shown that the risk assessment tools that are currently being used, are not as accurate in predicting future risk as one would hope for. Therefore, some scholars advocate a paradigm shift by incorporating a biopsychosocial model, including neurobiological measures in risk assessment models. The current review aimed to give answer to the question whether neuro-imaging measurements add in the accuracy of predicting aggression and violent (criminal) recidivism, and to discuss what next steps need to be taken to move neuro-imaging informed risk assessment forward in forensic clinical practice. The results of the current review showed that findings regarding ‘neuroprediction’ are mainly based on cross-sectional studies and that studies using rigorous methods for determining the incremental predictive accuracy of neural parameters are lacking. Future studies need to rely on prospective and longitudinal data that address the added value of neural measures over traditional risk factors specifically, taken different ethical and judicial considerations into account. Studies that take a personalized approach, focusing on neurobiologically informed risk assessment at the individual level to translate this into forensic clinical practice, is in our view the next step that will move this forward.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102008"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143136689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association between self-related cognitions and cyberbullying victimization in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis","authors":"Florina Magdalena Anichitoae ,&nbsp;Anca Dobrean ,&nbsp;Raluca Diana Georgescu ,&nbsp;Gabriela Diana Roman","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Self-efficacy, self-esteem, self-concept, and self-blame have been proposed as potential factors in the development and maintenance of cybervictimization in a unidirectional, but also in a cyclic paradigm. Our objective was to synthesize the existing evidence and assess potential moderators of the relationship between these self-related cognitions and cybervictimization. We searched five electronic databases (PsycINFO, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and Cochrane) from inception until October 2022. A total of 81 studies were included, encompassing a cohort of 110,095 children and adolescents with a mean age of 11.51 years. Nearly half of the studies were rated as having fair quality. Across the examined self-related cognitions, high level of cybervictimization was associated with low level of self-concept, low self-efficacy and low self-esteem. Cognitions related to self-blame were not statistically significantly associated with cybervictimization in our review. These findings included high heterogeneity and were consistent across sensitivity analyses. Meta-regression analyses revealed that the number of participants significantly moderated the relationship between self-esteem and cybervictimization, but the percentage of victims and mean age of participants did not exhibit significant moderation effects. This preregistered systematic review and meta-analysis showed modest yet statistically significant correlations between self-related cognitions and cybervictimization. The discussion addresses the implications for future research and anti-cyberbullying programs.</div><div>PROSPERO reference number CRD42021289512.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102021"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142889353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cyberhate in adolescents and youths: A systematic review of labels and associated factors","authors":"Olga Jiménez-Díaz,&nbsp;Rosario Del Rey","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cyberhate in adolescents and youth has recently attracted attention in the scientific literature. Early research has provided relevant information about the characteristics of cyberhate and its associated factors. However, given the rapidly growing scientific literature on cyberhate, it is now necessary to systematically evaluate and integrate the manifold empirical results. Therefore, this research aims to provide a comprehensive and systematised overview of existing findings on the labelling of cyberhate and the factors associated with seeing, being subjected to, and perpetrating it. A systematic review was carried out, based on the PRISMA strategy, of 42 articles that met the established inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results offer evidence of the diverse labels for cyberhate in the scientific literature, especially in recent years, and shed light on the phenomenon. Key factors associated with cyberhate involvement are identified, such as the online context, the normalization of violence, and group norms and behaviours. The results highlight the influence of previous bullying experiences on being subjected to cyberhate, being male on perpetrating it, and the time spent online on seeing it. This review offers a systematized and updated view of the literature on cyberhate published to date; it provides important findings for broader and more inclusive studies, and highlights key factors meriting future research and consideration in psychoeducational prevention programs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"81 ","pages":"Article 102023"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142990228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}