Development of male proactive and reactive physical aggression during adolescence.

Running head: REACTIVE AND PROACTIVE AGGRESSION 1 Joint Trajectories of Reactive and Proactive Aggression from Mid-childhood to Early Adolescence: Relations to Sensation Seeking, Risk Taking, and Moral Reasoning

We examined the roles of sensation seeking, risk taking, and moral reasoning in the development of reactive and proactive aggression. Data were drawn from a multiethnic, longitudinal study of children from Switzerland (N = 1,571; assessed annually over 6 years; 7-years-old at Time 1). At all six time points, teachers reported children’s reactive and proactive aggression via questionnaire. Child...

Reactive and proactive aggression differentially predict later conduct problems.

This study tested whether proactive and reactive aggression were differently predictive of later externalizing problems such as delinquency and DSM-related disruptive behaviors (i.e. oppositional defiant and conduct disorders). It also tested whether these two subtypes of aggressive behaviors interacted in predicting externalizing problems. A community sample of low SES boys participated in the...

Reactivity and distortions in the self: narcissism, types of aggression, and the functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis during early adolescence.

A multisample, multistudy project aimed at understanding how individual differences in narcissism during early adolescence are related to distortions in the aggression, and the reactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to negative and positive experiences. The findings indicate that individual differences in narcissism are a remarkably stable aspect of personality during early adole...

Longitudinal relationships between proactive and reactive aggression and autonomic nervous system reactivity in delinquent male adolescents : the moderating eff ect of posttraumatic stress symptoms

Background: In this study the longitudinal relationships between proactive / reactive aggression and autonomic nervous system (ANS) (re)activity were studied, as well as the moderating effect of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Methods: Delinquent males were assessed twice over a 5-year period in adolescence. We related self-reported proactive/ reactive aggression and PTSD symptom...

Running head: Executive functioning in relation to proactive and reactive aggression Executive functioning in relation to proactive and reactive aggression in childhood and adolescence