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  title info:
    title: Aggressive themes in the fantasies of institutionalized violent delinquents who were abused as children
  name:
    name part: Smoote, Stanley Dale
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Baker, Donald G.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Benjamin, Ludy T., Jr.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Duffy, Michael
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Smith, Darrell
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1984
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 83 leaves ; 29 cm
  abstract: The major purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of child abuse on violent juvenile delinquents who had been institutionalized for violent crimes with a particular focus on aggression. The literature on child abuse suggests that the relationship between child abuse and aggression, both overt and covert is unclear. Further, the relationship between fantasy aggression and overt behavior is unclear in spite of a long history of research attempts to clarify the relationship. The present study was an attempt to determine that relationship between overt behavior and fantasy by introducing family drawings as a means of eliciting fantasy aggression and conducting comparisons of that technique with the Thematic Apperception Test to determine which was most closely related to overt aggressive behavior. Forty-four delinquent adolescents who had been institutionalized for violent crimes participated in this study. Twenty-two subjects had been abused prior to their institutionalization. The remaining 22 subjects had not been abused. Each subject in the study produced fantasy stories to the TAT and the family drawings which they had drawn. These fantasy stories were analyzed for aggressive content to determine whether or not the abused sample was significantly more aggressive than the nonabused sample, as anticipated.Both an analysis of variance and a correlational procedure were performed to determine whether or not the groups were significantly different on levels of aggression and to examine the relationships between fantasy aggression and overt aggressive behavior. A multiple regression was also conducted to provide descriptive data concerning the samples. Results of this study failed to indicate any significant differences between the overt or fantasy aggression levels of the two groups. Little relationship was found between aggressive behavior and fantasy aggression even in this violent population of delinquents. On the basis of this investigation, it was conc…
  note: "Major subject: Educational Psychology."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Philosophy Texas A & M University 1984
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-72).
  subject:
    topic: Abused children
  subject:
    topic: Juvenile delinquency
  subject:
    topic: Educational Psychology
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-407798
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 860403
    record change date: 20220104090234.0
    record identifier: in00000403403
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng