Modification of hostile attribution bias reduces self-reported reactive aggressive behavior in adolescents

Bockstaele, Bram Van; Molen, M.J. van der; Nieuwenhuijzen, M. van; Salemink, Elske

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104811

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“…More in detail, participants were presented with ambiguously provocative social situations, and subsequently trained to interpret these situations in a more benign manner. Not only did the training increase the tendency to reduce the presence of a hostile attribution bias, but also led to decreased reactive but not proactive self-reported aggression compared with a control group [97]. The latter is in line with the hypotheses from the SIP model, especially relating reactive aggression to early interpretation biases.…”

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“…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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“…Second, as mentioned in the introduction, if the presence of cognitive biases can be related to increased anger and aggression, a reduction of attention and interpretation related biases may lead to decreasing tendencies towards anger and aggression [12,40]. Related to reactive and proactive aggression, Van Bockstaele et al [97] included the hostile attribution bias as a target in bias modification training and found support for the usefulness of cognitive bias modification to reduce aggression. More in detail, participants were presented with ambiguously provocative social situations, and subsequently trained to interpret these situations in a more benign manner.…”

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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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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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“…The dual competition model (Pessoa, 2009) assumes that cognitive resources are limited. In particular, reactively aggressive adolescents have a hostile interpretation bias, and they tend to view many nonthreatening situations (such as happy expressions) as threatening (Lake et al, 2014;Bockstaele et al, 2020), which impedes the later stage of response inhibition through reducing the availability of attentional resources. The results of the P3 difference wave also showed that the response inhibition to angry expressions in reactive aggressive adolescents was the same as happy expressions, which provides strong support for the above explanation.…”

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Reactive Aggression Affects Response Inhibition to Angry Expressions in Adolescents: An Event-Related Potential Study Using the Emotional Go/No-Go Paradigm

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Although it is well established that response inhibition to angry expressions is impaired among reactively aggressive adolescents, the cognitive processes underlying this effect remain unclear. The main goal of our study was to investigate the time course of response inhibition to angry expressions in reactively aggressive adolescents compared to controls. In total, 23 reactively aggressive adolescents and 23 control adolescents were recruited to participate in an event-related potential (ERP) study measuring response inhibition to angry expressions with an emotional Go/No-go paradigm. The results showed that when presented angry or happy expressions, reactively aggressive adolescents showed a smaller No-go P3 effect than the control group. These results indicate that response inhibition to angry expressions in reactively aggressive adolescents is impaired at the later stage of the actual inhibitory control. The characteristics of response inhibition to happy expressions in reactively aggressive adolescents are similar to those in response to angry expressions.

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“…Aggressive people tend to describe the motives of others as vague and provocative rather than harmful or accidental. This tendency is called hostile attribution bias (19,20). Identifying and recognizing negative situations and correctly assessing the intentions of individuals play a decisive role(21) that indirect biases against the existence of such siding reduce the social performance of adolescents (19) This bias is more used in the period of adolescent development (16).…”

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The Relationship Between Difficulty in Emotion Regulation and Alexithymia With Hostile Attribution Bias and Anger in in Adolescent Boys With High Bullying: a Path Analysis

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2022

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IntroductionAdolescence is one of the critical stages and the period of evolution of human physical and mental development that occurs between childhood and youth. Successful completion of this course plays a role in mental health and personality. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of Difficulty in Emotion Regulation and Alexithymia with Hostile attribution bias and Anger in adolescent boys with bullying, which plays an important role in developmental outcomes in adolescents. Methods345 male students in Zanjan, iran participated in this study.To measure self-reporting tools, Gertz and Roemer(2004) Difficulty in emotion regulation Questionnaire, Toronto Alexithymia Questionnaire(TAS-20), McBril, Milich & Handley (2003 hostile attribution bias Questionnaire, and Eiseng and Glenn Wilson (2003) Aggression Questionnaire(2009) were evaluated. Path analysis method was used to analyze the causal model. The results show a good fit of the model with the experimental data. ResultsThe results also showed a direct and significant effect between anger and Difficulty in Emotion Regulation (β =0.19, p <0.05), Alexithymia (β = 0.17, p <0.05) and Hostile attribution bias in male adolescents (β =0.32, p<0.05) with high bullying. As well the mediating role of Hostile attribution bias in the relationship between Difficulties in emotion regulation with anger is significant (β = 0.32). Moreover the mediating role of Hostile attribution bias in the relationship between Alexithymia with anger is significant (β = 0.20). ConclusionThese results contribute to the theoretical knowledge of how Alexithymia and hostile attribution bias affect anger in adolescent populations. The findings supported the mediating role of hostile attribution bias in the relationship between Difficulty in Emotion Regulation and Alexithymia with anger in adolescents. All three predictor variables are trainable and can be used in anger reduction and bullying interventions in adolescents.

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Modification of hostile attribution bias reduces self-reported reactive aggressive behavior in adolescents

Cited by 26 publications

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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

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

Reactive Aggression Affects Response Inhibition to Angry Expressions in Adolescents: An Event-Related Potential Study Using the Emotional Go/No-Go Paradigm

The Relationship Between Difficulty in Emotion Regulation and Alexithymia With Hostile Attribution Bias and Anger in in Adolescent Boys With High Bullying: a Path Analysis

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