Aggressiveness in the HEXACO personality model

Abstract

The a im of this research was to examine the relations between the HEXACO facets and aggressiveness components (anger, vengefulness, domination, hostility, reactive aggression, proactive aggression, and indirect aggression). On a sample of 654 participants from general population, HEXACO-60, Aggressiveness Questionnaire AVDH, Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ), and Indirect Aggression Scale (IAS) were applied. The results of the community structure network analysis provided the most informative insight into these relations and showed that all aggressiveness components formed a single community with the Agreeableness facets. Thereby, facet Patience was the strongest correlate of anger, and hostility had the highest clustering coefficient, which brings together the Agreeableness facets and aggressiveness components. Although Honesty-Humility formed a separate community, some of its facets had strong isolated connections with indirect aggression and dominance. The results revealed that Agreeableness is a dominant correlate of aggressiveness and captures all aggressiveness components, while Honesty-Humility is related to specific components, referring to a manifestation of aggressiveness in a more subtle and indirect way.

Psychometric Properties of the Multidimensional Temperance Scale in Adolescents

“…In addition, the data provide evidence in favor of concurrent validity. In line with prior research [ 45 , 52 , 87 ], these results showed significant and negative associations between traits that conformed to temperance virtues and proactive and reactive aggression. Moreover, these correlation effect sizes suggest practical implications.…”

An Adaptationist Framework for Personality Science

“…Converging evidence from previous studies Recent empirical findings provide converging support for our conclusions. For example, in a large Serbian community sample, Sokolovska, Dinić, and Tomašević (2018) found that HEXACO Agreeableness was strongly negatively associated with measures of reactive aggression and aggressive bargaining, and that these aggression measures clustered together with the Agreeableness facets in a network analysis. Cheng, Tracy, and Henrich (2010) found similar patterns in relation to FFM Agreeableness.…”

“…Evolutionary psychologists have now reverse engineered a large array of putative adaptations in humans. For example, the human mind appears to be equipped with psychological mechanisms designed to estimate the genetic relatedness of self to others and, based on these estimates, regulate kin–directed cooperation and incest avoidance (Lieberman, Tooby, & Cosmides, 2007; Sznycer, De Smet, Billingsley, & Lieberman, 2016); facilitate learning in children about which local plants are edible via observations of adults’ plant consumption (Wertz & Wynn, 2014); regulate behaviour in order to prevent and mitigate the deleterious effects of pathogen exposure (Murray & Schaller, 2016; Schrock, Snodgrass, & Sugiyama, 2020; Tybur, Lieberman, Kurzban, & DeScioli, 2013); reason about the contingencies of social exchange and exclude cheaters and free–riders from cooperation (Cosmides et al, 2010; Delton, Cosmides, Guemo, Robertson, & Tooby, 2012); represent the features of interdependent social situations (Balliet, Tybur, & Van Lange, 2017); motivate people to engage in third–party punishment in order to deter future acts of exploitation toward oneself (Krasnow et al, 2016); motivate facultative coalitional aggression against other groups (Manson et al, 1991; Wrangham & Glowacki, 2012); track markers of social alliances (Pietraszewski, Cosmides, & Tooby, 2014); generate moral sentiments about domain–specific aspects of social life (Barrett et al, 2016; Boyer, 2007; Curry, Mullins, & Whitehouse, 2019; Petersen et al, 2012; Pinsof & Haselton, 2016); acquire local norms about the contexts of cooperation (Apicella & Silk, 2019; House et al, 2020); and compute the social value of self (Denissen, Penke, Schmitt, & Van Aken, 2008; Leary, Tambor, Terdal, & Downs, 1995) and others (Buss et al, 1990; Delton & Robertson, 2012; Durkee, Lukaszewski, & Buss, 2019; Eisenbruch, Grillot, Maestripieri, & Roney, 2016; Sznycer et al, 2016; von Rueden, Gurven, & Kaplan, 2008) (for recent reviews, see Buss, 2015; Buss, 2019).…”

Getting along And/Or Getting Ahead: Differential Hexaco Personality Correlates of Likeability and Popularity among Adolescents

“…the Dark Triad; Paulhus & Williams, ; Lee & Ashton, , ), egoism (De Vries, De Vries, De Hoogh, & Feij, ), unethical business decisions (Ashton & Lee, ), and counterproductive work behaviours (Pletzer, Bentvelzen, Oostrom, & De Vries, ; Pletzer, Oostrom, Bentvelzen, & De Vries, ). In research on the relations between HEXACO personality and antisocial/aggressive behaviours, HEXACO honesty‐humility was typically found to be the best (negative) predictor of adolescent bullying (Provenzano, Dane, Farrell, Marini, & Volk, ; Volk, Provenzano, Farrell, Dane, & Shulman, ; Volk, Schiralli, Xia, Zhao, & Dane, ), proactive aggression (Book, Visser, Volk, Holden, & D'Agata, ; Dinić & Wertag, ; Sokolovska, Dinić, & Tomašević, ), relational aggression (Knight, Dahlen, Bullock‐Yowell, & Madson, ), antisocial behaviours at school (Allgaier et al, ), and sadism (Plouffe, Saklofske, & Smith, ).…”