Phillips Nathaniel L, Du Tianwei V, Miller Joshua D, Lynam Donald R
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Aggress Behav. 2025 Jan;51(1):e70019. doi: 10.1002/ab.70019.
Trait aggression is often separated into two functional dimensions: reactive and proactive tendencies. Reactive aggression is the tendency to engage in emotionally driven aggressive responses to perceived provocation, whereas proactive aggression is the tendency to engage in premeditated aggressive behaviors in the service of goal attainment. To date, the majority of empirical investigations examining these interrelated constructs have done so using cross-sectional data that have important limitations (e.g., recall bias). In the current study, we used an experience-sampling approach to investigate similarities and differences in reactive and proactive aggression's relations with affective and interpersonal constructs in a sample of 477 US undergraduate students. Our results indicated that baseline reactive and proactive aggression scores were predictive of aggression-related behavior, cognition, and affect in real-world dyadic encounters. Additionally, although reactive aggression showed stronger relations with investigated maladaptive outcomes (e.g., negative affectivity, lack of interpersonal warmth), profile similarity analyses indicated that these trait aggression dimensions shared substantial overlap in their nomological nets.
反应性和主动性倾向。反应性攻击是指对感知到的挑衅做出情绪驱动的攻击性反应的倾向，而主动性攻击是指为了实现目标而进行有预谋的攻击行为的倾向。迄今为止，大多数研究这些相关结构的实证调查都是使用具有重要局限性（例如回忆偏差）的横断面数据进行的。在当前的研究中，我们采用经验取样法，在477名美国本科生样本中，研究反应性攻击和主动性攻击与情感和人际结构关系的异同。我们的结果表明，基线反应性和主动性攻击得分可预测现实世界中二元互动中与攻击相关的行为、认知和情感。此外，尽管反应性攻击与所研究的适应不良结果（例如消极情感、缺乏人际温暖）显示出更强的关系，但轮廓相似性分析表明，这些特质攻击维度在其法理网络中存在大量重叠。
