The term aggression derives from the Latin adgredi meaning "to go towards", "to attack", "to walk forward". The word refers in a general way to any behavior, attack or opposition, unprovoked which is expressed with violence and brutality. Aggression may be preceded by manifestations of provocation, as well as by premeditated action. In social and behavioral sciences, aggression defines an attack on the physical integrity (physical aggression) or psychological injury of people (verbal aggression).

Aggression aims to cause harm or to establish domination in a relational, social or international context. Defensive or predatory behavior in different species can not be considered aggression in a similar sense.

Assertive behavior1 or the doctrine of non-violence aims to prevent or reduce aggressive behavior.

There are two categories of aggression commonly distinguished. The first includes emotional (emotional) and hostile or revenge aggression, and the other includes aggression with pre-meditation2. A number of classifications and dimensions of aggression have been suggested. They depend on the type of aggression, whether it is physical or verbal; in any case, it implies a relational type of aggression3; it does not matter if the harm is intentional or not; it does not matter if it is done peacefully or aggressively; and it does not matter if the aggression is done directly or indirectly. It can also be associated with aggressive emotions (eg anger) and psychological states (eg, impulsivity, hostility) 4. Aggression can be an emotional response to social factors or not, and can be related to stress5. It can also be used to intimidate. The peak of physical aggression in children is around 2-3 years old. It declines on average as and when 16,17. However, there are children who do not acquire any necessary abilities in the development of physical aggression. Corporal punishment such as spanking can increase the risk of aggression in children18.

An experiment called the Bobo doll experiment was conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961. In this study, Bandura discovers that children exposed to an aggressive adult model tend to be more aggressive, unlike children who have been exposed to a non-adult model. aggressive. This experience shows that someone coming into contact with a child can have an impact on his or her behavior19.

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Dr. Adel OUESLATI

Aggressive Behavior Children

Are you worried about aggressive behavior children? Does a child you know exhibit aggressive behaviors? Do you want to learn more about aggression in children and how to help?

You are not alone.

When children exhibit high levels of aggression their parents and teachers worry. What is the problem? Why is the child behaving in this manner? What is contributing to and maintaining  the aggressive behaviors? And what can they do to help? 

Aggressive behavior children show distress and upset, and are often hard to calm. It is difficult to sooth them and assist them in managing  their behaviors. These behaviors contribute to problems for the aggressive child. He is often written off as "naughty" or "bad" and punished.

Aggressive behavior children also cause considerable distress in others. Aggressive children  may be argumentative and verbally aggressive. They may have difficulty controlling their temper and are easily upset and annoyed by others. They are often defiant and may appear angry and resentful.Their aggressive behaviors can disrupt lessons in school and hurt, intimidate and frighten other children.

Unless we intervene to help these children, they are at risk of developing serious behavior disorders like Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder. As their problems increase, their aggressive behaviors threaten the safety of other children, and/or adults. When the aggressive behaviors  escalate to this level, some of these children are expelled or suspended from school. The protection of  other children and their teachers is the prime concern when this occurs.

Some children exhibit aggressive behaviors that are less extreme or problematic, but worrisome nonetheless.They may slap or poke other children or pinch them. Some children throw small objects or bang and break things when they are angry and upset. Others have temper tantrums and kick or scream.

Some children are verbally aggressive. They call other children names, they threaten and tease them or they use emotional control to victimize and push other children around. They might ostracize them and spread rumors about them.

Regardless of the level of aggression, it is important to intervene early to help aggressive  behavior children.Aggressive children need to develop healthy coping strategies to control their behaviors and manage anger and conflict, and other distressing feelings and situations. We need to teach them alternative ways to solve problems. We need to provide strategies to help calm and sooth their nervous systems, so they are not so so easily triggered and thrown into the "fight " response when threatened.

What Causes Aggression in Children?

Children do not behave aggressively because they are "naughty or "bad." Their aggressive behaviors may result from brain patterns that have been shaped by prior experiences, usually those involving relationships and/or specific social experiences, or actual trauma itself, either a single trauma, or more chronic, complex relationship traumas. These brain patterns, in turn, trigger the "fight response." And the child responds aggressively to ward off the perceived threat. This process is often unconscious, and immediate, and out of the child's control. Others may  find it hard to perceive any discernible threat, or if they do, it may appear largely benign, and any aggressive response unjustified.

Consequently, it is often the brain, shaped, in part, by prior experiences, that lies behind the aggressive behavior. 

Multiple factors interact to foster aggression in children.

In some cases, for example, the interaction between the child’s temperament and/or a genetic predisposition and environmental influences (e.g. stress) can increase a child’s reliance on aggression as a major coping strategy.

Some of the multiple factors that interact and can contribute to high levels of  aggression in a children include the following:

• Genetic and/or temperamental influences, that are, in turn, shaped by experience. Genes alone do not cause aggressive behaviors.
• Insecure or disorganized attachment patterns can shape brain patterns that can heighten the levels of aggression in a child..
• Ongoing and unrelieved stress.
• Lack of appropriate problem solving and coping strategies.
• Limited experience with role models (e.g. peers, family members, TV. & computer games) who value and provide examples of non-aggressive behaviors.
• Ineffective parenting style: for example, authoritarian, controlling, harsh or coercive parenting style; permissive, overindulgent parenting style; rejecting parenting style; psychological problems in the parent such as depression or alcoholism can contribute to stress in a child.
• Poor fit between parent and child:Ineffective parenting could be an effect rather than a cause of the child’s behavior. Children’s problem behaviors may affect parents’ moods and parenting behaviors.
• Family stress, disruption and conflict.
• Instability and the lack of a safe secure environment. 
• Neurological insult such as acquired brain injury. 

Help Aggressive Behavior Children

The following suggestions can help you, help aggressive behavior children. Try those that apply to your situation.

Remember, behavior change takes time. It requires consistency and follow through.

Be on the look out for small changes. Small steps make a difference and will lead you and your child toward a positive outcome. Notice when things are working or positive change is occurring, however small these steps may seem.

Consistency, follow through and patience increases the chances that your efforts will pay off. Try some of the following and help Aggressive Behavior Children.

Finally, if the problem shows little sign of abating, despite your efforts to address it, a comprehensive psychological assessment or school neuropsychological evaluation) is recommended to help get to the root of the problem, and point to evidence based interventions to address it. 

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Thank you very much Dr. Adel and Dr. Saad for these wonderful answersAs

I think the environment of a child during his/her growth and development after birth plays a very strong role in development of nature of the children. Parent is the strongest item of such environment. Many children do not get sufficient attention of parents due to many reasons, but get electronic toys, mobile phones etc.at large number. It may play a very strong role in such activities of children.

In addition to genetic factor, social and economic situations may be are behind of violent behavior in children. Factors such as single parenting, breakup of a marriage, poverty , exposure to violence,  and lack of family follow-up are possible causes  of aggressive behavior in children.

Their parents are doing the same in front of them, so they just copy their parents: That is all they know.

Thank you, dear colleagues, for these wonderful scientific answers

I think that one of the important factors that lead to the emergence of aggressive behavior in children is the harsh education by parents, which lead children to the behavior of this trend, so watch children for violence films as well as games of a combat nature develop aggression in the personality of the child, nothing but deprivation and poverty and other factors of building personality

I am guess , absence attention of parents , modern child games and the nature of the family behavior in which he /she live consider the important causes of aggression ,, Best regards ,,, Jawad Ali

Irritating objects, happenings and circumstances weather comes through imaginations or reality leads children to the behaviour which is the cause of irritation.

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In fact the reasons are not the cause but a particular cause may have an effect on this Behavior is more than other reasons.

Before talking about the reasons we need to define aggressive behavior in the child is a negative behavior of the child towards others and shows physical or language violence or gestures and expressions unacceptable to others.

In general studies indicate many reasons for example:

- A child's feeling that it is socially unacceptable by family and friends

- Negative socialization (some families encourage the child to practice antagonistic behavior)

- The child's feeling of lack due to congenital defects and this is beyond his will

- Watch movies that contain scenes of violence

- The child is subjected to oppression by others, causing him to react negatively

I think that the environment is the main reason. Best regards.

El contexto familiar y social con alto grado de agresividad y violencia, puede influir para que un niño tenga una conducta agresiva en la escuela, aún sin que se le provoque; con mayor razón cuando es provocado en forma agresiva, el responde igual.

The family and social context with a high degree of aggressiveness and violence can influence a child to behave aggressively in school, even without provoking it; with greater reason when it is provoked in an aggressive way, he responds the same.

Violent entertainment, belligerent company (friends and family) as well as witnessing violent episodes in real life scenarios such as countries plagued by wars. I pray children globally are not exposed to such disgusting company and conditions!

Mainly due to 2 reasons: Genetic and acquired and I think the last one is more effective. .

I am very happy about the wonderful scientific answers that help me in my field

In general children are excellent observers and learn most of the things by keenly watching their parents and other family members. Most of the time we fail to notice this phenomena and keep on wondering how and when this has happened. In my opinion in most of the cases we see our aggressive behaviour is getting reflected in our children. But then there could be other reasons too.

thank you dr.

It i sthe responsibility of the parents to observe the behavior of child right from early stage & acclrding to the nature & behavior of the child the parent have to observe the child under a watch dog manner & have to see that the child must get the reposnse against the action of the parents under a positive manner which is growth . This may certainly help for parents to change the behavior of a child of aggressive manner .

It is in this line i submit the publication some time back under the caption of my article '' Behavior '' which i submit herewith for my perusal .

This is my opinion

Children tend to mirror the behavior of their parents. If you express your anger in reasonable ways, he probably will follow your example.

Thank you for sharing your question with me.

The cause may be the result of a particular illness, the result of excess activity and energy needed, or the feeling of inferiority, inferiority, frustration, depression, repression, love of possession, desire to show strength, competition, genetic factors, educational behavior in the home, or the tightness of the house so as not to have the opportunity to play and movement and activity, and here should be discussed in the future if the psychological state continued at this pace.

Research in scandinavian countries has shown that removing soft drinks, sweets and other sources of refined sugar from the "nutrition" of children leads to a reduction of about hlf of their aggressive behavior: Le sucre, responsable de la délinquance des jeunes ?

Dans une étude étonnante, le criminologue Schoenthaler a démontré dans des populations de délinquants que la réduction des sucres rapides atténue les comportements violents. Suite à la réduction des aliments et boissons sucrés chez des détenus d'un centre de détention juvénile, les actes de violence ont diminué de 66 %, les tentatives d'évasion ont diminué de 84 %, et la dégradation de biens et les vols ont diminué de 51 %.

Dans une autre étude, les agressions ont diminué de 82 %, les vols de 77 %, les infractions au règlement de 23 %, et les bagarres de 13 % sur sept mois.

Ces expériences ont été reproduites dans d’autres pays, avec des résultats similaires.

Dans une école danoise d’Aarhus, on a ainsi instauré un petit-déjeuner obligatoire pour les écoliers à problème. Dans ce repas, les chips, sucreries, coca et boissons gazeuses ont été remplacés par des aliments contenant plutôt des glucides lents. Le résultat : moins de conflits, moins d'absences pour maladie, et… de meilleurs résultats scolaires.

Abolir l’esclavage

Pour réduire cet esclavage au sucre, il n’y a pas d’autre solution que de couper les chaînes et de limiter au maximum sa consommation de sucre.

La bonne nouvelle est qu’il existe d’abord d’autres « bonnes drogues », dont les goûts et saveurs valent dix fois celui du sucre (et qui sont parfaitement sains) :

Les glucides lents (légumes secs, céréales complètes, patates douces, manioc, courges, châtaignes, etc)

Les oléagineux : une poignée d’amandes ne coûte pas plus cher qu’un snack, elles sont délicieuses à croquer en cas de « petite faim » et les études scientifiques montrent qu’elles améliorent la santé cardiovasculaire.

Le chocolat noir (à partir de 74 %) a des effets antisurpoids, protecteurs contre le diabète et les risques cardiovasculaires

Etc.

Des compléments alimentaires comme le magnésium et les vitamines B sont la première base pour rééquilibrer le rapport entre accélérateur et frein pulsionnel.

D’autres moyens permettent aussi d’améliorer notre contrôle pulsionnel et réduisent la vulnérabilité aux dépendances de tout ordre : la pratique d’un sport, de yoga, de Qi gong ou de méthodes comme la respiration complète ou encore la cohérence cardiaque.

Enfin, la réalisation de soi dans un ensemble plus large de dimensions – amoureuse, sportive, culturelle, sociale – peut être facilitée par une démarche de développement personnel (lectures, ateliers, stages, thérapeute) et d’expression créative…, de même que par un engagement dans des associations.

Comme l’alcool, le tabac, les achats compulsifs, le sucre détourne de la réalisation des désirs profonds, authentiques, affectifs, sociaux, riches en vraies valeurs.

Evidence from neuropsychological, neurological, and brain imaging studies concluded that prefrontal structural and functional deficits are related to antisocial, aggressive behavior throughout the lifespan.

AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL....REPEAT : AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL. Sample: 50 U.S. states plus D.C. Violent crime data are from the FBI.....known violent crime as reported by police. Rates of non-marital births: Non-marital births per 1000 live births. Non-marital births and rates of violent crime (concurrent: 2007-2011). For each of the five surveyed years, the correlation (rp) was significant and positive. The range was .572 to .657; all p

I think if childrens needs are unmet it leads to aggressive behavior.

Thank you very much my dear colleagues for these wonderful scientific answers

The statistical analysis, analytical delineation, medical insights, and theological reviews suggest that its part and parcel component of the childhood nature. However, the scale of aggressiveness could be controllable.

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Very good question Dear

Many things can shape your behavior. These can include:

• physical health
• mental health
• family structure
• relationships with others
• work or school environment
• societal or socioeconomic factors
• individual traits
• life experiences

I think answer by Dr. Mohamed G. E. Gadallah satisfied. Regards.

I am writing in regard of your question about causes of aggression among children. Many of research shown that because of parental care the temperament is one of main reason. It is many research and studies among children from development psychology perspective. There you can check the relationship between parents and child temperament and the level of reactiveness of child.

Best regards,