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- Title
Daily Reports of Aggressive Behaviors in Interpersonal Conflicts.
- Authors
Mumford, Elizabeth A.; Taylor, Bruce G.; Borowiecki, Mateusz; Maitra, Poulami
- Abstract
Interpersonal conflicts are inevitable, but the probability that conflicts involve aggressive behavior varies. Prior research that has tended to focus on victimization in intimate partnerships reported through retrospective designs. Addressing these limitations, the current study examines daily reports of behaving aggressively in any conflict across relationships in a sample of 512 young adults drawn from the nationally representative iCOR cohort. Respondent attitudes and affective measures were collected at the end of the daily data collection period. Regression methods were applied to examine the probability and frequency of aggression, investigating early and recent exposure to adversities, attitudes, self-control, affect and emotional states, and alcohol use behavior. Recent adversities and the propensity to endorse a defensive honor code attitude, consistent with theory and retrospective studies of aggression, predicted both prevalence and frequency of aggressive behavior. The associations of childhood maltreatment and self-control with the prevalence of behaving aggressively were as expected, but these constructs were significantly associated with the frequency of aggression with unexpected, inverse directionality. Moreover, respondents' affect and other emotional states were only associated with the frequency, not the prevalence, of aggressive behavior. Overall, this daily data collection constructively distinguished risk and protective factors for behaving aggressively more often. Further research is needed to disentangle the extent to which affective states drive or is a consequence of frequent aggressive behavior.
- Subjects
PREVENTION of child abuse; RISK factors of aggression; ADVERSE childhood experiences; REPORT writing; AFFECT (Psychology); ALCOHOLISM; ATTITUDE (Psychology); SELF-management (Psychology); RETROSPECTIVE studies; REGRESSION analysis; MENTAL health; VIOLENCE; RISK assessment; CRONBACH'S alpha; INTERPERSONAL relations; DISEASE prevalence; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESEARCH funding; EMOTIONS; DATA analysis software; LOGISTIC regression analysis; ODDS ratio; LONGITUDINAL method; PROBABILITY theory; POISSON distribution; ADULTS
- Publication
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2022, Vol 37, Issue 23/24, pNP21850
- ISSN
0886-2605
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/08862605211063003