Adolescent girls often
perpetrate aggression by gossiping and spreading rumours about others, by
attempting to ruin relationships and by manipulating and excluding others.
Further, males and females engage in reactive and proactive relational
aggression differently. In this study, we examined the individual, peer and
parental contextual factors that best explained the use of reactive and
proactive relational aggression in girls.
Female participants (n =
614; ages 11-18 years) completed questionnaires on aggression,
callous-unemotional (CU) traits, delinquency, peer delinquency, gender
composition of their peer group, resistance to peer influence and perceived
parental overcontrol. Multinomial logistic regression was used to examine the
effects of individual, peer- and parent-related variables on the likelihood of
being classified as a low aggressor, reactive aggressor or proactive/reactive
aggressor. Girls in the combined reactive/proactive aggression group were
younger, had greater CU traits, a lower proportion of male peers and greater
perception of parental control than both the reactive and low aggressive
groups. Both highly aggressive groups were more delinquent and had greater peer
delinquency than the low aggressive group.
This study suggests those girls who show relational
aggression for the purpose of gaining status and revenge feel restrained by
their parents and may gravitate toward relationships that support their
behaviour.
Below: Profiles of reactive and proactive relational aggression resulting from
two-step cluster analysis
Full article at: http://goo.gl/sqKPMx
- 1Department of Psychology and Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK. luna.munoz@durham.ac.uk.
- 2Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus. kfanti@ucy.ac.cy.
- 3Department of Psychology and Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK. n.d.thomson@durham.ac.uk.
- 4Department of Psychology, University of Nicosia, Nicosia 1700, Cyprus. demetriou.v@student.unic.ac.cy.
- 5Department of Psychology, University of Nicosia, Nicosia 1700, Cyprus. hadjicharalambous.x@unic.ac.cy.
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