Relations between Reactive and Proactive Aggression and Daily Emotions in Adolescents.

Relations between Reactive and Proactive Aggression and Daily Emotions in Adolescents.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2019 Mar 30;:
Authors: Moore CC, Hubbard JA, Bookhout MK, Mlawer F
Abstract
The current study examined whether individual differences in reactive and proactive aggression: 1) relate to level of daily emotion, including happiness, sadness, anger, and fear, 2) predict across-day variability in these emotions, and 3) moderate reactivity of these emotions to positive and negative events. Participants were a racially/ethnically diverse sample of 144 adolescents (80 girls, 64 boys; M age = 13.55 years; SD = 1.34). Adolescents self-reported on reactive and proactive aggression in a home visit prior to the collection of daily data. Using daily dairy procedures, adolescents then reported on their daily emotions and positive/negative events over 12 consecutive days. Higher reactive aggression was associated with greater levels of daily anger, more variability in anger across days, and heightened angry reactivity to negative events. Additionally, higher reactive aggression predicted lower levels of daily happiness but greater happy reactivity to positive events. Finally, higher reactive aggression was linked to increased variability in daily fear. In contrast, proactive aggression was largely unrelated to adolescents' daily emotions, with the exception that higher proactive aggression predicted less variability in happiness ac...

Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - March 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Moore CC, Hubbard JA, Bookhout MK, Mlawer F Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research