A combination of combat experience, early abduction, and severe traumatization fuels appetitive aggression and violence among abductees of rebel war in Northern Uganda.
Lord's Resistance Army
abduction
appetitive aggression
sensitive period
traumatic load
violence
Journal
Aggressive behavior
ISSN: 1098-2337
Titre abrégé: Aggress Behav
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7502265
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 2020
11 2020
Historique:
received:
02
12
2019
revised:
23
06
2020
accepted:
24
06
2020
pubmed:
10
7
2020
medline:
30
10
2020
entrez:
10
7
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Individuals who perpetrate violence may likely perceive violence as appealing and infliction of violence to derive pleasure is termed as appetitive aggression. Individuals who were abducted as children into an armed group often experience a higher number of traumatic event types, that is traumatic load and are usually socialized in a violence-endorsing environment. This study aims to investigate the interaction between age at initial abduction with that of traumatic load, and their influence on appetitive aggression along with perpetration of violent acts by former members of an armed rebel group of both sexes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted among a target group of formerly abducted rebel-war survivors (including participants with and without combat experience) from Northern Uganda. Participants included 596 women and 570 men with N = 1,166 (M
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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IM
Pagination
465-475Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Authors. Aggressive Behavior published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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