Aggression and Its Causes

Renfrew, John W.

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“…The cost to the families of victims in the UK is estimated at around £1.3 million (21). Several theories have been suggested to explain the risk factors for violence, which highlight the roles of individual as well as environmental factors (22).…”

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Alexithymia and Its Associations With Depression, Suicidality, and Aggression: An Overview of the Literature

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Depression affects around 4–10% of the general population in England. Depression can often lead to behaviors and thoughts related to suicide and aggression, which have a social and economic burden to the United Kingdom. One construct that has been theorized as having an association with these behaviors is alexithymia. People with alexithymia have difficulties identifying and describing their emotional experiences. To date, there is no consensus on types or causes of alexithymia. Whilst the literature evidences a strong relationship between alexithymia and suicidality and aggression, little is known about the nature of this relationship. The present article will attempt to describe the extant literature on this relationship, drawing out some of the contentions and unanswered questions.

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“…Researchers state that the incorrect management of aggressiveness may bring the individual to adverse situations in the short or long run (e.g., Berkowitz, 1996;Coie & Dodge, 1998;Crick, 1996;Nagin & Tremblay, 1999;Renfrew, 1997). Aggressiveness has specifically been associated with traits such as low self-esteem (Donnellan, Trzesniewski, Robins, Moffitt, & Caspi, 2005), substance use (Fergusson, Horwood, & Ridder, 2007), psychopathy (Marsee, Silverthorn, & Frick, 2005), or psychopathology (Helfritz & Stanford, 2006).…”

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Parenting practices, parental attachment and aggressiveness in adolescence: A predictive model

Gallarin

Alonso‐Arbiol

2012

Journal of Adolescence

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The aim of this study was twofold: a) to test the mediation role of attachment between parenting practices and aggressiveness, and b) to clarify the differential role of mothers and fathers with regard to aggressiveness. A total of 554 adolescents (330 girls and 224 boys), ages ranging between 16 and 19, completed measures of mothers' and fathers' parenting practices, attachment to mother and to father, and aggressiveness. Acceptance/involvement of each parent positively predicted an adolescent's attachment to that parent, and coercion/imposition negatively predicted attachment to a lesser extent. Using structural equation modeling, a full mediation model provided the most parsimonious explanation for the data. With attachment in the model, the paths between the two parenting practices and aggressiveness were minor and statistically non‐significant. Only attachment to the father, was predictive of adolescents' aggressiveness. Results are discussed in the light of the importance of the father–son/daughter relationship in adolescence.

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“…2This article is not concerned with aggression in animals other than humans because we believe that the hostile–instrumental dichotomy continues to be a valuable categorization scheme in the nonhuman aggression literature (Lindsay & Anderson, 1998; Renfrew, 1993). Although humans certainly share aggression-related evolutionarily developed emotion and action systems, we believe that human learning, language, and thinking capacities, especially the development of full consciousness that occurs around 3–4 years of age, override (or cover up) such clearly distinguishable types of aggression (Astington, Harris, & Olson, 1988; Dennett, 1991; Leslie, 1987; Wegner & Bargh, 1998).…”

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Is it time to pull the plug on hostile versus instrumental aggression dichotomy?

Bushman

Anderson

2001

Psychological Review

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Psychologists have often categorized human aggression as hostile or instrumental. Hostile aggression is "hot," impulsive behavior that is motivated by a desire to hurt someone; instrumental aggression is "cold," premeditated behavior used as a means to some other end. This dichotomy was useful to the early development of aggression theories and continues to capture important features of nonhuman aggression, but it has outlived its usefulness as a descriptor of fundamentally different kinds of human aggression. It is confounded with the automatic-controlled information-processing dichotomy, and it fails to consider aggressive acts with multiple motives. Knowledge structure models of aggression easily handle these problems. Taking extreme measures to preserve the hostile-instrumental dichotomy will delay further advances in understanding and controlling human aggression. Therefore, this seems a proper time to "pull the plug" and allow the hostile-instrumental aggression dichotomy a dignified death.

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Aggression and Its Causes

Cited by 18 publications

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Alexithymia and Its Associations With Depression, Suicidality, and Aggression: An Overview of the Literature

Alexithymia and Its Associations With Depression, Suicidality, and Aggression: An Overview of the Literature

Parenting practices, parental attachment and aggressiveness in adolescence: A predictive model

Is it time to pull the plug on hostile versus instrumental aggression dichotomy?

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