Hostile attribution bias and aggression in adults - a systematic review

Tuente, Stéphanie Klein; Bogaerts, Stefan; Veling, Wim

doi:10.1016/j.avb.2019.01.009

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“…That circular mechanism may lead to persistent hostile attributions, with lower cross-situation variability (Buck, Healey, Gagen, Roberts, & Penn, 2016;. Interestingly among children, and especially boys, there is a strong association between hostile attributions and the likelihood of engaging in aggressive or violent acts (De Castro, Veerman, Koops, Bosch, & Monshouwer, 2002); however, among adults this association is small to medium (Tuente, Bogaerts, & Veling, 2019). In clinical samples, greater hostility bias predicts generally poorer social functioning (Lahera et al, 2015).…”

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Situational context influences the degree of hostile attributions made by individuals with schizophrenia or autism spectrum disorder

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British J Clinic Psychol

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Objectives. Previous work has demonstrated that the tendency to make hostile attributions is not a stable trait but varies across different social situations. Therefore, we sought to investigate whether hostile attributions within clinical samples are better understood as a persistent characteristic or one that varies across contexts.Methods. The current analyses investigated patterns of attributions among people diagnosed with schizophrenia (SCZ, n = 271) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD, n = 100) and non-clinical control participants (NCC, n = 233) in an existing data set.Results. Results showed that specific relational features in vignettes portraying different social encounters influence the way people make attributions and that variability across contexts is present in both non-clinical and clinical populations. Like non-clinical participants, participants diagnosed with ASD ascribed the greatest hostility to a scene involving an authority figure. In contrast, SCZ participants reported the greatest hostility in response to a scene involving a friend.Conclusions. These findings suggest that salient environmental factors should be considered when assessing social cognitive skills and biases.

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Section: Practitioner Pointsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Situational context influences the degree of hostile attributions made by individuals with schizophrenia or autism spectrum disorder

Zajenkowska

Rogoza

Sasson

et al. 2021

British J Clinic Psychol

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“…These aspects may cause conflicts between patients and healthcare staff, which sometimes lead to restrictive measures, such as temporary removal from the living group or the suspension of leave modalities (8). Taken together, the specific circumstances associated with working as a healthcare professional in forensic care settings can cause work pressure and stress (9)(10)(11), thereby reducing productivity and negatively affecting psychological well-being.…”

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Associations Between Resilience, Psychological Well-Being, Work-Related Stress and Covid-19 Fear in Forensic Healthcare Workers Using a Network Analysis

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Forensic healthcare workers deal with patients with severe psychiatric and behavioral problems that put them at an increased risk of developing work-related stress and burnout. Working with this target group of patients during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic with far-reaching restrictive measures can negatively affect the psychological well-being of forensic workers. Research suggests that resilience can buffer workplace stress and contribute positively to psychological well-being. However, research on resilience, psychological well-being and work-related stress among forensic healthcare workers is still lacking. Therefore, in this study, we investigated the interrelations between psychological well-being and resilience on the one hand and work-related stress and Covid-19 fear-related symptoms on the other hand. Self-report data were obtained from 318 healthcare workers (73.9% women) working in three Forensic Psychiatric Centers (M age = 44.20, SD = 14.31) and are in direct contact with forensic patients. The data were analyzed using network analysis. Consistent with previous research, the results showed that workplace stress and fear associated with the Covid-19 pandemic can be detrimental to workers' psychological well-being, while resilience can serve as a protective factor against being personally attacked or threatened by patients at the workplace. Last but not least, we identified highly central symptoms, namely tremors due to the fear of the coronavirus and anxiety when other people coughing, which would be the best candidates for future treatment targets. This knowledge can help clinicians optimize interventions to reduce workplace stress and fear due to the pandemic. Future studies should aim to replicate our findings in a larger and more representative sample of forensic healthcare workers.

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“…Therefore, the model posits that processes in earlier and later cognitive processes, together, contribute to individual trait anger and reactive aggression levels (i.e., related to attention, interpretation and effortful control [27]). Together with the encoding of cues that require attention, the interpretation of those cues represent the earlier social information processing stages that are thought to cause reactive aggressive behaviour due to the misinterpretation of unclear and ambiguous situations, evoking threat [44]. Previous studies supported assumptions made by the model by showing that increased anger and aggression are related to biases in selective attention and the interpretation of ambiguous behaviours, two stages of information processing relevant to hostile reactivity [12,40].…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Third, it could be useful to investigate additional cognitive biases. For instance, the hostile attribution bias, or the tendency to interpret motives of others in ambiguous social events as provocative [44,97], which was already found to relate to the experience of anger [98] and reactive aggression [12]. Together with the attentional bias towards aggression, the hostile attribution bias represents the early stages of social information processing as described by the SIP.…”

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Relating Reactive and Proactive Aggression to Trait Driving Anger in Young and Adult Males: A Pilot Study Using Explicit and Implicit Measures

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Driving anger and aggressive driving are main contributors to crashes, especially among young males. Trait driving anger is context-specific and unique from other forms of anger. It is necessary to understand the mechanisms of trait driving anger to develop targeted interventions. Although literature conceptually distinguished reactive and proactive aggression, this distinction is uncommon in driving research. Similar, cognitive biases related to driving anger, measured by a combination of explicit and implicit measures, received little attention. This pilot study related explicit and implicit measures associated with reactive and proactive aggression to trait driving anger, while considering age. The sample consisted of 42 male drivers. The implicit measures included a self-aggression association (i.e., Single-Target Implicit Association Test) and an attentional aggression bias (i.e., Emotional Stroop Task). Reactive aggression related positively with trait driving anger. Moreover, a self-aggression association negatively related to trait driving anger. Finally, an interaction effect for age suggested that only in young male drivers, higher proactive aggression related to lower trait driving anger. These preliminary results motivate further attention to the combination of explicit and implicit measures related to reactive and proactive aggression in trait driving anger research.

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Hostile attribution bias and aggression in adults - a systematic review

Cited by 109 publications

References 59 publications

Situational context influences the degree of hostile attributions made by individuals with schizophrenia or autism spectrum disorder

Situational context influences the degree of hostile attributions made by individuals with schizophrenia or autism spectrum disorder

Associations Between Resilience, Psychological Well-Being, Work-Related Stress and Covid-19 Fear in Forensic Healthcare Workers Using a Network Analysis

Relating Reactive and Proactive Aggression to Trait Driving Anger in Young and Adult Males: A Pilot Study Using Explicit and Implicit Measures

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