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control
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control 1) n. the power to direct, manage, oversee and/or restrict the affairs, business or assets of a person or entity. 2) v. to exercise the power of control.


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However, seven of the statements of strategies, four, eight, nine, ten, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, were more to do with the changing of behaviours in a situation of aversive control than with the development of empathy and self regulated action.
After viewing the documented differences between families of non-aggressive and aggressive children, Bierman (1986) suggests that aggressive children have been caught in a negative family socializing cycle where family interactions are characterized by aversive control such as yelling, hitting and threatening parental behavior.
 
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