Broman-Fulks Joshua J, McCloskey Michael S, Berman Mitchell E
Department of Psychology, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA.
Aggress Behav. 2007 Mar-Apr;33(2):137-44. doi: 10.1002/ab.20175.
An important focus of recent aggression research has been to identify personality variables that influence the expression of aggression. One such variable may be anxiety sensitivity (AS). Individuals high in AS fear unpleasant anxiety-related physiological sensations and perhaps physiological arousal in general. Accordingly, people high in AS are motivated to avoid situations that produce these sensations. With respect to aggressive encounters, an intense attack by an opponent involves significant physiological arousal. High anxiety-sensitive individuals may therefore attempt to decrease the intensity of the interaction by responding in a non-aggressive or conciliatory manner. To test this possibility, 112 community volunteers completed a measure of AS and a well-validated laboratory task designed to assess aggressive behavior. As predicted, an inverse relation between AS and extreme aggressive responding was found. Specifically, as AS increases, retaliatory aggression is less likely after intense attack by an opponent.
近期攻击行为研究的一个重要焦点是确定影响攻击行为表现的人格变量。其中一个这样的变量可能是焦虑敏感性（AS）。AS得分高的个体害怕与焦虑相关的不愉快生理感觉，或许总体上害怕生理唤醒。因此，AS得分高的人有动机避免产生这些感觉的情境。就攻击性遭遇而言，对手的强烈攻击会引起显著的生理唤醒。因此，高焦虑敏感性个体可能会试图以非攻击性或和解的方式回应，以降低互动的强度。为了检验这种可能性，112名社区志愿者完成了一项AS测量以及一项经过充分验证的旨在评估攻击行为的实验室任务。正如预测的那样，发现AS与极端攻击反应之间存在负相关。具体而言，随着AS的增加，在对手强烈攻击后进行报复性攻击的可能性较小。
