Constructive and Destructive Behavior

by Bohart, Arthur C.; Stipek, Deborah J.

• ISBN13: 9781557987402
• ISBN10: 1557987408
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Summary

California State Univ., Dominguez Hills. Integrates the latest research findings with the theory of aggressive behavior. For researchers, theorists, and practitioners. Explores what influences prosocial and antisocial expression.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Introduction	3	(10)
I. Theory	13	(82)
Aggression and Attachment: The Folly of Separatism	21	(28)
Robert B. Cairns
Beverley D. Cairns
Seeing Is Believing: How Viewing Violence Alters Attitudes and Aggressive Behavior	49	(12)
L. D. Eron
Toward a Comprehensive Empathy-Based Theory of Prosocial Moral Development	61	(26)
Martin L. Hoffman
Institutionalized Aggression: Cultural and Individual Factors That Support War	87	(8)
Robert A. Hinde
II. Empirical Findings	95	(130)
Prosocial Development in Context	103	(24)
Paul Mussen
Nancy Eisenberg
Constructive and Destructive Aspects of Shame and Guilt	127	(20)
June Price Tangney
Self-Reported Empathy in Norwegian Adolescents: Sex Differences, Age Trends, and Relationship to Bullying	147	(20)
Inger M. Endresen
Dan Olweus
Reveller or Striver? How Childhood Self-Control Predicts Adult Behavior	167	(20)
Lea Pulkkinen
Prosocial Behavior and Aggression in Childhood and Pre-Adolescence	187	(18)
Gian Vittorio Caprara
Claudio Barbaranelli
Concetta Pastorelli
Designing a Method to Assess Empathy in Italian Children	205	(20)
Paolo Albiero
Alida Lo Coco
III. Prevention and Intervention	225	(140)
Can Early Childhood Intervention Prevent Delinquency? A Real Possibility	231	(18)
Edward Zigler
Sally J. Styfco
Cognitive Processes and the Development of Aggression	249	(22)
L. Rowell Huesmann
Meredith A. Reynolds
How to Think, Not What to Think: A Problem-Solving Approach to Prevention of Early High-Risk Behaviors	271	(20)
Myrna B. Shure
Pathways to Constructive Lives: The Importance of Early School Success	291	(26)
Deborah J. Stipek
Catharsis as a Constructive Expression of Destructive Affect: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives	317	(20)
Jonathan Bloom-Feshbach
Sally Bloom-Feshbach
How Can Expression In Psychotherapy Be Constructive?	337	(28)
Arthur C. Bohart
IV. What Have We Learned?	365	(34)
What Have We Learned?	367	(32)
Arthur C. Bohart
Deborah J. Stipek
Author Index	399	(12)
Subject Index	411	(10)
About the Editors	421