성인의 적대적 귀인편향과 부정 긴급성이 반응적 공격성에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Objectives The purposes of this study were to investigate the mediation role of anger rumination between hostile attribution bias and reactive aggression as well as negative urgency and reactive aggression. Through this, we tried to establish an empirical basis for intervening in anger rumination to reduce reactive aggression.
 Methods For this purpose, 449 adults who live in Republic of Korea completed Attribution and Self-Target perception, Urgency, Premeditation, Perseverance, Sensation seeking, Positive urgency(UPPS-P), Korean version of Anger Rumination Scale(K-ARS), Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire(RPQ). After that, structural equation analysis was conducted to confirm the mediating effect of anger rumination in their relationship between hostile bias attribution, negative urgency, and reactive aggression.
 Results The study found that there were statistically significant positive correlations among hostile attribution bias, negative urgency, anger rumination, reactive aggression. Another founding was that anger rumination fully mediated the relationship between hostile attribution bias and reactive aggression. Also anger rumination partially mediated the relationship between negative urgency and reactive aggression.
 Conclusions These results suggest that the higher hostile attribution bias and negative urgency, the more angry rumination, and the higher anger rumination, the more reactive aggression may increase. However, since both hostile attribution bias and negative urgency are regarded as characteristic variables formed over a long period of time, it can take a long time to directly intervene and change. Therefore, in order to reduce reactive aggression, it may be helpful to intervene in anger rumination, which is regarded as a relatively state variable.