@article{ref1,
title="Brief report: Play fighting to curb self-reported aggression in young adolescents",
journal="Journal of Adolescence",
year="2014",
author="Carraro, Attilio and Gobbi, Erica and Moè, Angelica",
volume="37",
number="8",
pages="1303-1307",
abstract="This study investigated the effects of play fighting on aggressive behaviors. It was hypothesized that the teaching of play fighting during physical education lessons could reduce self-reported aggression in a group of adolescents to a greater extent than playing volleyball (a low physical contact activity). Participants were 210 young adolescents (mean age = 13.27, SD = 0.48 years) from 10 classrooms that were randomly assigned to an 8-lesson play fighting session or to traditional volleyball lessons. They filled in the 12-item short version of the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ-12) pre- and post-interventions. The play fighting group showed a significant reduction in all the four subscales of the AQ-12 (Cohen d ranging from 0.61 to 0.67), while participants in the volleyball group did not. <br><br>RESULTS suggest that play fighting might provide useful contents in a physical education curriculum, with possible reduction in aggressive behavior.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0140-1971",
doi="10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.09.009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.09.009"
}