Aggression and Antisocial Behavior–View of Aggression (original) (raw)

Aggression and violent behavior

1996

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Paradigm change in aggression research: The time has come to retire the General Aggression Model

Aggression and Violent Behavior, 2012

As Kuhn (1970) has noted, most scientific fields go through processes of paradigm change, painful periods in which old theories no longer fit available data and are placed by new theories. Such periods typically create strife and debate as ideological differences emerged between proponents of old and new theoretical approaches. In the current paper, we argue that such a period has been reached within the field of aggression research. Over the past half-century, social cognitive and social learning paradigms of aggression, exemplified in the General Aggression Model (GAM) have retained dominance, particularly in areas such as media violence. We contend that data to support the GAM and social cognitive approaches to aggression have never been conclusive, and newer evidence increasingly suggests that the GAM and social cognitive theories of aggression more generally are not adequate to explain aggressive phenomena. We discuss weaknesses and problematic, sometimes hidden assumptions of the GAM and how these reduce the utility of this paradigm. Current evidence suggests that the GAM and the social cognitive paradigm of aggression should be retired, and approaches which focus on diathesis-stress hold greater promise.►Aggression research has entered a period of paradigm change. ►The General Aggression Model has received only poor research support. ►Diathesis stress models of aggression are a better match to research data.

Human aggression

Annual review of psychology, 2002

Key Words violence, harm, theory, general aggression model s Abstract Research on human aggression has progressed to a point at which a unifying framework is needed. Major domain-limited theories of aggression include cognitive neoassociation, social learning, social interaction, script, and excitation transfer theories. Using the general aggression model (GAM), this review posits cognition, affect, and arousal to mediate the effects of situational and personological variables on aggression. The review also organizes recent theories of the development and persistence of aggressive personality. Personality is conceptualized as a set of stable knowledge structures that individuals use to interpret events in their social world and to guide their behavior. In addition to organizing what is already known about human aggression, this review, using the GAM framework, also serves the heuristic function of suggesting what research is needed to fill in theoretical gaps and can be used to create and test interventions for reducing aggression.

Chapter XLVII The Aggression Questionnaire

2018

We describe two short-form versions of the selfreport aggression questionnaire initially developed by Buss and Perry (1992). Often referred to as the Buss-Perry aggression questionnaire (BPAQ), the original inventory consists of 29 items that measure four aspects of trait aggressiveness-anger, hostility, verbal-and physical-aggression-that are typically used both individually and/or combined to create an overall aggressiveness index. The BPAQ is the successor of the Buss-Durkee hostility inventory (Buss & Durkee, 1957). Perhaps more appropriate for Internet-based research are the AQ-12 and AQ-15 short forms derived from two different efforts to refine the BPAQ. One effort resulted in the AQ-12 (Bryant & Smith, 2001, p. 150), which uses 12 of the original 29 AQ items. The other effort yielded the AQ-15 by drawing from a 34-item AQ revision by the same authors (Buss & Warren, 2000, pp. 13, 65), and also from the AQ-12. Comparing the AQ-12 and AQ-15 reveals almost identical items for the anger, hostility, verbal-and physical-aggression subscales. The

Human Aggression: A Social-Cognitive View

The SAGE Handbook of Social Psychology: Concise Student Edition, 2007

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Aggression Among Malaysians: Implications for the Community and Environment

The aim of this research was to establish a baseline of aggression among Malaysians. With this baseline, it is possible to determine the position of Malaysian criminals' aggression levels. Such information is vital for understanding Malaysians' level of aggression compared to other country populations as well as determining what form of rehabilitation should be implemented in order to reduce criminals' aggression levels to the Malaysian population average instead of non-Malaysian population average levels. For this purpose one hypothesis was proposed: Malaysian sexual offenders have a higher level of aggression compared to the normal population. The samples were as follows: 235 government servants representing the normal population (control group) and 99 incarcerated sexual offenders representing the criminal population (experimental group). An adapted version of Buss and Perry's (1992) aggression questionnaire was used to compare levels of physical aggression, verba...