Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, C/ Xosé María Suárez Núñez, s/n, Campus Vida, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2024 Oct;55(5):1155-1166. doi: 10.1007/s10578-022-01479-5. Epub 2022 Dec 12.
The goal of this study was to examine the distinctiveness of reactive aggression (RA) and proactive aggression (PA) from a variable- and person-based approach, their psychosocial correlates and behavioral outcomes, and analyze their replicability across two samples of adolescents. The forensic sample was composed of 231 juvenile offenders and the community sample included 321 youth. At a variable-based level, the results of the factor analysis supported the original two-factor model of aggression, and RA and PA showed differential associations with a set of psychosocial correlates and behavioral outcomes. At a person-based level, three subgroups were identified, namely low aggression, moderate RA, and mixed aggression. The mixed aggression group showed the most severe profile in both samples. These results support the distinctiveness of RA and PA at a variable-based level but lead to consider PA as a severity marker rather than a distinct subgroup at a person-based level.
本研究旨在从变量和个体基础的角度考察反应性攻击（RA）和主动性攻击（PA）的独特性，以及它们的社会心理相关性和行为后果，并分析它们在两个青少年样本中的可重复性。法医学样本由 231 名少年犯组成，社区样本包括 321 名青少年。在基于变量的水平上，因子分析的结果支持了攻击性的原始两因素模型，RA 和 PA 与一系列社会心理相关性和行为后果表现出不同的关联。在基于个体的水平上，确定了三个亚组，即低攻击性、中度 RA 和混合攻击性。混合攻击性组在两个样本中表现出最严重的特征。这些结果支持 RA 和 PA 在基于变量的水平上的独特性，但导致将 PA 视为一种严重程度的标志物，而不是基于个体的水平上的一个独特亚组。
