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Differential correlates of reactive and proactive aggression in Asian adolescents: relations to narcissism, anxiety, schizotypal traits, and peer relations
Author(s) -
Seah Suzanne L.,
Ang Rebecca P.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
aggressive behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.223
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1098-2337
pISSN - 0096-140X
DOI - 10.1002/ab.20269
Subject(s) - aggression , psychology , narcissism , context (archaeology) , developmental psychology , anxiety , poison control , generalizability theory , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , medicine , medical emergency , paleontology , biology
This study investigated relationship between reactive and proactive aggression, and narcissism, anxiety, schizotypal traits, and interpersonal relations in a sample of 698 Asian adolescents from Grades 7 to 9. Proactive aggression was found to be significantly associated with narcissism, whereas reactive aggression was significantly associated with anxiety, schizotypal traits, and poor interpersonal relations. Study findings provide support from a cross‐cultural standpoint for differential correlates of reactive and proactive aggression and represent an initial attempt to illustrate the generalizability of existing findings on the distinction between the two subtypes in an Asian context. Implications for theory building of the reactive–proactive aggression typology are discussed. Aggr. Behav. 34:553–562. 2008. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.