Aggression In Girls: Article Critique And Personal Experience

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Aggression In Girls: Article Critique And Personal Experience

...try and determine the causes of aggression in children; however, most of these have used boys as the subject. (This isn’t surprising since girls and women are routinely overlooked in research.) This paper explains a theory of aggression in girls as propounded by Anne Conway in her report Girls, Aggression and Emotion Regulation, and relates her theory to real life experience.
Discussion
Conway’s article is a prime example of what’s wrong with academic writing. She seems incapable of putting together a sentence simply, so that lay persons as well as professionals can understand her. For instance, what is a reader to make of this: These data suggest that relatively high levels of
distress may be felt by relationally aggressive children in relational conflict situations and may lead them to engage in relationally aggressive behaviors as a strategy for regulating their emotions (Conway, 2005, p. 336). What?! What she’s saying in an extremely circular way is that children who are relationally aggressive (that is, they use relationships to beat up...

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