scholarly journals The Moderating Role of Surgency, Behavioral Inhibition, Negative Emotionality and Effortful Control in the Relationship between Parenting Style and Children’s Reactive and Proactive Aggression

Children ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Nora del Puerto-Golzarri ◽  
Aitziber Azurmendi ◽  
María Rosario Carreras ◽  
José Manuel Muñoz ◽  
Paloma Braza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Reactive Aggression ◽  
Proactive Aggression ◽  
Reactive And Proactive Aggression ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

The principal aim of this study is to explore the moderating role of temperament in the relationship between parenting style and the reactive and proactive aggressive behavior of 8-year-old children. The participants are 279 children (154 boys and 125 girls). To measure reactive and proactive aggression, children completed the reactive and proactive questionnaire (RPQ). Child temperament and parenting styles were evaluated by both parents using the temperament in middle childhood questionnaire (TMCQ) and the parenting styles and dimensions questionnaire (PSDQ). The results revealed that boys with high surgency levels and authoritarian fathers displayed more reactive aggression, whereas behaviorally inhibited boys with mothers who scored low for authoritarian parenting displayed less reactive aggression. Finally, girls with high levels of effortful control and mothers who scored low for authoritative parenting displayed more proactive aggression. The results highlight the value of studying the moderating role of temperament in the relationship between children’s aggressive behavior and both mothers’ and fathers’ parenting styles, and underscores the importance of doing so separately for boys and girls.

Functions of Aggression and Delinquency: The Moderating Role of Parent Criminality and Friends’ Gang Membership

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (22) ◽  
pp. 3531-3550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca P. Ang ◽  
Vivien S. Huan ◽  
Xiang Li ◽  
Wei Teng Chan
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relations ◽  
Reactive Aggression ◽  
Proactive Aggression ◽  
Gang Membership ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Adolescent Aggression ◽  
Moderator Effects ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

This study examined the relationships between two functions of aggression (i.e., reactive and proactive) and delinquency, including the moderating effects of parent criminality and friends’ gang membership, in a sample of 1,027 Singaporean adolescents from Grade 7 to Grade 9, with age ranging from 12 to 19 years ( M = 14.10, SD = 1.15). Findings suggested that both reactive aggression and proactive aggression significantly and positively predicted delinquency (after controlling for proactive aggression and reactive aggression, respectively), with proactive aggression being a stronger predictor. Friends’ gang membership was found to moderate the relationship between reactive aggression and delinquency, and proactive aggression and delinquency, with stronger moderator effects for the latter. Those who were aggressive proactively and who had friends in a gang appear to be impacted most negatively with respect to delinquency. Parent criminality did not moderate these relationships. These findings highlight the need to effectively address the issues of child and adolescent aggression. Also, developing positive peer relations early is crucial for delinquency prevention.

scholarly journals The role of personality in the relationship between the perceived parenting style and the choice of coping mechanisms

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-109
Author(s):  
Maria Popescu
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Style ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Perceived Parenting ◽  
Social Coping ◽  
Parenting Dimensions ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the moderating role of personality in the relationship between perceived parenting type and personal coping style. One hundred and fourteen women and 30 men, aged between 16 and 71 years old, participated in the present study. The instruments used were the Parenting Style Inventory-II (PSI-II), the COPE inventory, and Big-Five IPIP-50. Results showed that social coping was the only coping style that was significantly predicted by parenting dimensions. It was found that extraversion negatively moderates the relationship between mothers’ and, respectively, fathers’ parenting styles and social coping. Emotional stability also negatively moderates the link between parenting and social coping, but only for the mother’s parenting. When analysed the separate dimensions of the parenting styles, it was found that emotional stability also negatively moderates the relationship between mother’s, respectively father’s warmth and social coping. Agreeableness was found to moderate the positive link between maternal parenting style and social coping, more specifically, maternal control. Openness to experience negatively moderated the relationship between maternal warmth and social coping. No significant relationships were found for conscientiousness. The present study can contribute to clinical practice by the insight it provides on the interaction between personality and environmental factors in the development of coping styles. This information can be used in tailoring the psychological interventions so that they can best suit each personality type.

scholarly journals The Influence of Parenting Style and Time Management Tendency on Internet Gaming Disorder among Adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (23) ◽  
pp. 9120
Author(s):  
I-Hua Chen ◽  
Zeng-Han Lee ◽  
Xiao-Yu Dong ◽  
Jeffrey Hugh Gamble ◽  
Hung-Wei Feng
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Internet Gaming Disorder ◽  
Gaming Disorder ◽  
Internet Gaming ◽  
The Relationship

The problem of adolescent online gaming addiction is related to individual-level characteristics and the influence of the family environment. The present study explores the potential role of adolescents’ time management tendency in mediating the relationship between parenting style and adolescent internet gaming disorder (IGD). Responses from a total of 357 Chinese high school students were collected for a Pathological Video-Game Use Questionnaire, Simplified Parenting Styles Scale, and Time Management Tendency Scale. Overall, participants reported moderate use of online games (Mean = 1.41; SD = 0.41), lower than the median value of 2 on a three-point scale. In terms of the mediating role of adolescents’ time management tendency, full meditation was observed for the relationship between the parenting style factor of “parents’ emotional warmth” for both mothers and fathers and internet gaming disorder. The results highlight the benefits of emotional warmth in supporting self-efficacy, self-control, and autonomy through the promotion of time management, which is an important protective factor for IGD and can serve as a mediating personality variable. Although non-significant in the complete model, over-protection and rejection by parents should also be cautiously considered as potential risk factors related to addiction.

Lower Levels of Classroom Aggression Predict Stronger Relations Between Peer Victimization and Reactive Versus Proactive Aggression

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052199795
Author(s):  
Michael T. Morrow ◽  
Julie A. Hubbard ◽  
Megan K. Bookhout ◽  
Marissa A. Docimo ◽  
Lauren E. Swift ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Peer Victimization ◽  
Reactive Aggression ◽  
Proactive Aggression ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Classroom Norms ◽  
Reactive And Proactive Aggression ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Differential Relations

We examined the concurrent relations of children’s reactive and proactive aggression with their experience of peer victimization. Extending previous research, we assessed these relations at both the child and classroom levels. We predicted that reactive aggression would relate positively to peer victimization, proactive aggression would relate negatively to peer victimization, and that these relations would vary with classroom levels of aggression. Participants included 1,291 fourth- and fifth-grade children (681 girls; M age = 10.14 years) and their 72 teachers from 9 schools in one public school district in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Children completed self-report measures of peer victimization and teachers completed measures of aggression for each child in their classrooms. Via two-level regression (level 1 = child; level 2 = classroom), reactive aggression related positively to peer victimization and proactive aggression related negatively to peer victimization. The positive relation between reactive aggression and peer victimization was only significant in classrooms with low levels of reactive aggression. The negative relation between proactive aggression and peer victimization was only significant in classrooms with low levels of proactive aggression. Our hypotheses were supported and offered further evidence for differential relations of reactive and proactive aggression with peer victimization at the child level, while demonstrating the important role of classroom norms for aggression in moderating these relations.

scholarly journals Differential Susceptibility or Diathesis-Stress: Testing the Moderating Role of Temperament and Cortisol Levels between Fathers’ Parenting and Children’s Aggressive Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1088
Author(s):  
Eider Pascual-Sagastizabal ◽  
Nora del Puerto-Golzarri ◽  
Aitziber Azurmendi
Keyword(s):  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Differential Susceptibility ◽  
Indirect Aggression ◽  
Stress Theory ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Immunoassay Technique ◽  
Cortisol Levels

Aggression is a multidimensional behavior that could be caused by different biopsychosocial variables. The aim of this study was to explore whether temperament, cortisol and sex moderate the relation between fathers’ parenting style and aggressive behavior in school-aged children, and whether this corresponds to differential susceptibility or diathesis-stress. Participants were 158 children (88 boys and 70 girls) aged 8 years. Aggressive behavior was measured using the Direct and Indirect Aggression Scale and fathers informed about their child’s temperament and their own parenting style through the Children’s Behavior Questionnaire and the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (respectively). Children’s’ baseline saliva cortisol levels were analyzed through an enzyme immunoassay technique. The results revealed that high cortisol levels moderated the relation between fathers’ low levels of authoritative parenting and boys’ aggression. Moreover, high negative emotionality moderated the relation between permissive paternal parenting and girls’ aggressive behavior, with both these relations being consistent with the diathesis-stress theory.

Cognitive Schemas and Aggressive Behavior in Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Social Information Processing

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Calvete ◽  
Izaskun Orue
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Reactive Aggression ◽  
Proactive Aggression ◽  
Cognitive Schemas ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Selection Of

This study assesses the association between cognitive schemas of justification of violence, grandiosity and abuse, and reactive and proactive aggressive behavior, and whether this association is mediated by social information processing (SIP). For this purpose, a sample of 1371 adolescents (638 girls and 580 boys) completed measures of cognitive schemas, SIP, and Reactive-Proactive Aggression. The results showed that the cognitive schemas of justification of violence and narcissism are more relevant for proactive aggression, whereas the abuse schema is more relevant for reactive aggression. SIP mediated particularly the association between cognitive schemas and reactive aggression. Each cognitive schema was shown to be associated with some particular SIP component: justification of violence and abuse with the component of interpretation, and narcissism with the experience of anger. Moreover, the abuse schema was negatively associated with the selection of aggressive responses. Lastly, a general model of paths between schemas, SIP, and aggression was found to be quite similar for boys and girls, although the former scored higher in proactive aggression, partly because of their higher scores in the justification of violence and narcissism schemas.

Reactive and proactive aggression in clinical adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: The moderating role of gender and comorbidities

2021 ◽  
pp. 135910452110550
Author(s):  
Peter Vida ◽  
Judit Balazs ◽  
Julia Gadoros ◽  
Peter Nagy ◽  
Jozsef Halasz
Keyword(s):  
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Attention Deficit ◽  
Proactive Aggression ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Oppositional Defiant ◽  
Aggression Questionnaire ◽  
Reactive And Proactive Aggression ◽  
The Difference

Aggression is well-known problem in adolescent with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), but the precise relation of reactive and proactive aggression by gender and comorbidities has not been characterized in this population. The aim of this study was to assess the level of reactive and proactive aggression in adolescents with ADHD and in matched non-ADHD clinical controls. The level of aggression was assessed by the Reactive and Proactive Aggression Questionnaire in 391 adolescents with ADHD and in 391 matched non-ADHD clinical controls. The selection of adolescents with ADHD was representative for a three-year–long period in Vadaskert Child Psychiatry Hospital. General Linear Model was used to assess the difference by ADHD, gender, and comorbidities on the level of reactive and proactive aggression. The presence of ADHD was associated with higher levels of reactive and proactive aggression. In girls, the effect of ADHD on reactive aggression was more profound. The presence of oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder in both groups resulted in higher levels of aggression. Our data suggest that adolescents with ADHD have higher level of aggressive behavior, and girls are especially vulnerable in terms of reactive aggressive behavior.

Incremental Prediction and Moderating Role of the Perceived Emotional Intelligence over Aggressive Behavior

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Angeles Peláez-Fernández ◽  
Natalio Extremera ◽  
Pablo Fernández-Berrocal
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Perceived Emotional Intelligence ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

AbstractThe aim of this research was to explore the influence of Perceived Emotional Intelligence (PEI) on aggression dimensions (Physical Aggression, Verbal Aggression, Hostility, and Anger) above and beyond the effects of gender, age, and personality traits (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience), as well as the moderating role of PEI on the relationship between personality and aggressive behavior, among young adults. The Trait Meta-Mood Scale, the Big-Five Inventory, and the Aggression Questionnaire were administered to a 313 Spanish community sample, comprised of both males (39.0%) and females (61.0%), ranging from 14 to 69 years old (X = 24.74; SD = 9.27). Controlling the effects of age, gender, and personality, PEI dimensions (Attention, Clarity and Repair) accounted for 3% of the variance (p < .05) in Verbal Aggression and Hostility. Interaction analysis showed that all PEI subscales moderated the relationship between four out of the Big-Five personality dimensions (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience) and the aggression dimensions. Particularly, the interaction between Attention and Extraversion and between Clarity and Neuroticism were significant predictors of Total Aggression (b = .67, t(313) = 2.35, p < .05; b = –.71, t(313) = –2.50, p < .05). The results show evidence of the predictive and incremental validity of PEI dimensions on aggressive behavior among young adults and of the moderating role of PEI on the personality-aggression relationship.

scholarly journals Differential Effects of the Menstrual Cycle on Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Borderline Personality Disorder

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica R. Peters ◽  
Sarah A. Owens ◽  
Katja M. Schmalenberger ◽  
Tory A. Eisenlohr-Moul
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Menstrual Cycle ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Reactive Aggression ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Proactive Aggression ◽  
Cycle Phase ◽  
Emotional Symptoms ◽  
Reactive And Proactive Aggression

AbstractBorderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by rapidly shifting symptoms, including intense anger and aggressive behavior. Understanding how fluctuations in ovarian hormones across the menstrual cycle may contribute to symptom instability is key for accurate assessment of BPD symptoms and effective interventions. Reactive and proactive aggression, as well as anger in and out, were assessed daily in 15 physically healthy, unmedicated naturally cycling female individuals without dysmenorrhea meeting criteria for BPD across 35 days. Urine LH surge and salivary progesterone were used to confirm ovulation and verify cycle phase. Cyclical worsening of symptoms was evaluated using multilevel models to evaluate symptom differences between cycle phases. Both forms of aggressive behavior demonstrated marked cycle effects, with reactive aggression highest during perimenstrual cycle phases, co-occurring with increases in anger in and out. In contrast, highest levels of proactive aggression were observed during the follicular and ovulatory phases, when emotional symptoms and anger were otherwise at lowest levels. These findings highlight the importance of identifying the function of aggression when considering potential psychological and biological influences. Naturally cycling individuals with BPD may be at elevated risk for perimenstrual worsening of a range of interpersonally reactive symptoms, including reactive aggression, whereas proactive aggression may occur more in phases characterized by less emotional and cognitive vulnerability and greater reward sensitivity. Research on aggression in this population should consider cycle effects. Cycling individuals with BPD attempting to reduce aggressive behavior may benefit from cycle-tracking to increase awareness of these effects and to develop appropriate strategies.

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