Moderating effects of childhood maltreatment on associations between social information processing and adult aggression

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1293-1304

  Chen, P ^a   Coccaro, E F ^a   Lee, R ^a   Jacobson, K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult aggression; Childhood maltreatment; Hostile attribution biases; Moderation; Negative emotional responses

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TWINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860756824     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291711002212     Document Type: Article

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