Disentangling the “whys” from the “whats” of aggressive behaviour

By T. Little, Christopher C Henrich, Stephanie M. Jones, P. Hawley. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Developmental perspectives on prosocial and aggressive motives in preschoolers’ peer interactions (2005, background): “Whereas proactive or instrumental aggression is associated with the anticipation of self-serving outcomes, reactive aggression is a hostile response to provocations (Coie & Dodge, 1998; Little et al., 2003b).”
The Utility of Forms and Functions of Aggression in Emerging Adulthood: Association with Personality Disorder Symptomatology (2008, background): “Despite recent tests supporting the utility of assessing both form and function of aggression from early childhood to adolescence (Little et al. 2003; Fite et al. in press; Marsee and Frick 2007; Ostrov and Crick 2007; Prinstein and Cillessen 2003) and calls for additional studies (Werner and Nixon…”
Rethinking Aggression: A Typological Examination of the Functions of Aggression (2003, methodology): “As mentioned, a notable outcome of the Little et al. (2003) study was that, when the confound of the form of the aggression is controlled for, the instrumental and reactive reasons for aggressive behavior emerge as uncorrelated dimensions.”
Differentiating Forms and Functions of Aggression in Emerging Adults: Associations with Hostile Attribution Biases and Normative Beliefs (2008, methodology): “…the culture and method of assessment, girls have been found to be more relationally aggressive than boys (e.g., Bonica et al. 2003; Crick and Grotpeter 1995; French et al. 2002; Hawley 2003; Ostrov and Keating 2004; Ostrov 2006; cf. Hart et al. 1998; Little et al. 2003; Tomada and Schneider 1997).”
Normative Beliefs and Relational Aggression: An Investigation of the Cognitive Bases of Adolescent Aggressive Behavior (2005, background): “Growing evidence suggests that these subtypes of aggression are distinct and differentially associated with personality, emotion, and social-information processing constructs (e.g., Dodge and Coie, 1987; Hubbard et al., 2002; Little et al., 2003).”
Forms and Functions of Aggression in Adolescent Friendship Selection and Influence: A Longitudinal Social Network Analysis: Aggression and Adolescent Friendships (2009, background): “Keywords: aggression; friendships; adolescence; social adjustment”
Ruminating on Rumination: are Rumination on Anger and Sadness Differentially Related to Aggression and Depressed Mood? (2010, neutral): “…things’ when they are angry (anger rumination questionnaire) or sad (sadness rumination questionnaire) Form-Function Aggression Measure (FFAM; Little et al. 2003) This questionnaire enables independent examination of the forms of aggressive behavior (overt and relational) and functions of…”
Proactive and reactive aggression in childhood and adolescence: A meta-analysis of differential relations with psychosocial adjustment (2006, background): “The correlation between proactive and reactive aggression using this approach (r = –.10; Little et al., 2003) was far smaller than that found in most other studies (with the exception of some observational studies; e.g., Hegland & Rix, 1990; Price & Dodge, 1989; Strassberg et al., 1994).”
Bullying and Victimization Among Native and Immigrant Adolescents in Norway (2009, methodology): “We acknowledge that some of the items used in these two subscales could be improved to distangle the “whats” (e.g., the forms) from the “whys” (e.g., the mechanisms) as done by Little et al. (2003).”