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DeGear, Elizabeth Berne – Religious Education, 2016
This article examines the psychoanalytic concepts of object-relations theorist Christopher Bollas, applying them to a view of the Bible as "transformational object." Emphasizing the connection between psychological process and religious experience, this article suggests that each person's innate ability to choose and use objects is a key…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Religious Education, Psychology, Learning Theories
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Helmsen, Johanna; Koglin, Ute; Petermann, Franz – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2012
This study examined whether the relation between maladaptive emotion regulation and aggression was mediated by deviant social information processing (SIP). Participants were 193 preschool children. Emotion regulation and aggression were rated by teachers. Deviant SIP (i.e., attribution of hostile intent, aggressive response generation, aggressive…
Descriptors: Aggression, Preschool Children, Information Processing, Correlation
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Sublette, Victoria Anne; Mullan, Barbara – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2012
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) have received considerable attention in news headlines describing gamers who have died while engaging in excessive play. However, more common physical and psychosocial effects attributed to online video gaming are social isolation, increased aggression, and negative academic and occupational consequences.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Video Technology, Play, Social Isolation
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Aber, J. Lawrence; Brown, Joshua L.; Jones, Stephanie M. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Examined developmental trajectories toward violence over middle childhood and children's response to a universal school-based preventive intervention. Found that three growth patterns--positive linear, late acceleration, and gradual deceleration--characterized the children's trajectories, and these trajectories varied meaningfully by child…
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Comparative Analysis, Demography