Author Question: After teaching a class about the general aggression model, a nurse determines that additional ... (Read 59 times)

jilianpiloj · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

After teaching a class about the general aggression model, a nurse determines that additional education is needed when the class identifies which of the following as an interactive component of the model?

A) Cognition
B) Affect
C) Arousal
D) Rewards

Question 2

A nurse is reading a journal article about anger and violence. Which of the following would the nurse expect to see as being linked to excessive, outwardly directed anger?

A) Myocardial infarction
B) Hypertension
C) Arthritis
D) Chronic pain

essyface1 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: D
The general aggression model (GAM) is a framework that accounts for the interaction of cognition, affect, and arousal during an aggressive episode. Cognition includes hostile thoughts and scripts (previous behavior patterns and responses to similar episodes). Mood, emotion, and expressive motor responses (automatic reactions to specific emotions) represent the affect component. Arousal can be physiologic, psychological, or both. Bandura's social learning theory focuses on the role of learning and rewards in the expression of aggression and violence.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: A
Maladaptive anger (excessive, outwardly directed anger or suppressed anger) is linked to psychiatric conditions, such as depression (Perugi, Fornaro, & Akiskal, 2011), as well as a plethora of medical conditions. For example, excessive, outwardly directed anger is linked to coronary heart disease (Ketterer et al., 2011) and myocardial infarction (Mostofsky, Maclure, Tofler, Muller, & Mittleman, 2013). Suppressed anger is related to arthritis, breast and colorectal cancer, chronic pain, and hypertension (Burns, Quartana, & Bruehl, 2011; Thomas, 2009). Furthermore, suppressed anger was a predictor of early mortality for both men and women in a large 17-year study (Potpara & Lip, 2011).