Explicit Aggression Research Articles

Development and Validation of an Explicit Aggressive Beliefs and Attitudes Scale

This work outlines the development and validation of a new self-report measure that assesses explicit aggressive beliefs and attitudes within the normal adult population (using 7 samples, total N = 3,533). These explicit aggressive beliefs and attitudes are expected to reflect aggressive biases including hostile attribution, potency, retribution, victimization by powerful others, derogation of target, and social discounting. The resulting scale is reliable with a hierarchical 6-factor structure, and displays convergent and discriminant validity. Criterion-related validity studies indicate incremental effects over socially desirable response bias, related implicit and explicit aggression measures, and is predictive of self-reported and other-reported aggression-related behaviors.

Predicting aggressive behavior in children with the help of measures of implicit and explicit aggression

Aggressive behavior between children in schools is a topic that receives much interest as violence and aggressive behavior cause many maladaptive social outcomes in the school setting. In the current study the Implicit Association Test (IAT) was adapted as a measure of children’s implicit aggression, by assessing the association of the self category (vs. other) with the attribute concept of aggressive (vs. peaceful). In addition to the IAT, a questionnaire measure to assess explicit aggression was utilized. The main goal of the present contribution was to examine the predictive validity of measures of implicit as well as explicit aggression in predicting the scores in a competitive computer game as an indicator of children’s aggressive behavior. Taken together, the results indicated that measures of implicit and explicit aggression could serve as reliable predictors of children’s aggressive behavior and that the IAT possesses incremental validity in addition to the self-report measure.

The infulence of self-control on the implicit aggression and explicit aggression of middle school students

Objective To discuss the relationship between self-control and aggressive structure of middle school students.Methods Using Self-control Questionnaire,Aggressive Questionnaire and the Implicit Association Test(IAT)to test 298 middle school students.Results The effects of students'thought control,emotion control and behavior control related not remarkable on implicit aggression(r=-0.11,r=-0.07,r=-0.03,P>0.05),but remarkable on the explicit aggression(β=-0.232,β=-0.188,β=-0.231,P＜0.05).The moderating effect of implicit aggression to the relationship between self-control and explicit aggression is weakly(△R2=0.007,P>0.05).Conclusion Self-control has remarkable inhibitory action to the explicit aggression,and the inhibitory action will not be influenced by implicit aggression. Key words: Self-control; Implicit aggresstion; Explicit aggression; Middle school students