Emotional Effect of Physical Aggression among Adults in the General Population in a Canadian Province
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13664736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Well (0000-0002-8150-2226, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, corresponding author), Samantha Wells (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario), Kathryn Graham (0000-0003-3318-3598, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 218-222 |
| Publication date | 2003-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.2003.92.1.218 |
| PMID | 12674285 |
| OpenAlex | W2048342214 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The emotional effect of personal involvement in physical aggression was examined in a random sample of 1,753 adults from Ontario, Canada, using Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (response rate of 67%). Respondents reported a range of emotional responses from feeling good or justified to feeling angry, upset, terrified, disgusted, hurt, and embarrassed. Open-ended responses regarding emotional response were rated by the authors for 149 incidents of aggression, which yielded five categories: (1) positive impact 4%, (2) no feeling or no effect 31%, (3) mildly negative 20%, (4) moderately negative 28%, and (5) severely negative 17% (Kappa statistic of interrater agreement=.77). The substantial proportion of incidents involving positive or no emotional response suggests that a greater understanding of aggression among individuals can be gained by the development and application of a quantitative measure of emotional response that reflects the full range of emotions (positive and negative), using dimensions identified in this study such as feeling upset, fear, and anger
Aggression · Anger · Developmental psychology · Feeling · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Poison control · Population · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |