Association between overt and relational aggression and psychosocial adjustment in undergraduate college students
| Autor: | Gary R. Geffken, Daniel M. Bagner, Eric A. Storch, Audrey L. Baumeister |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Adult
Male Health (social science) Universities Substance-Related Disorders Poison control Alcohol abuse Pathology and Forensic Medicine Interpersonal relationship Sex Factors Surveys and Questionnaires Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Interpersonal Relations Students Aggression Depression Loneliness Social anxiety General Medicine medicine.disease Substance abuse Phobic Disorders Female medicine.symptom Psychology Law Psychosocial Social Adjustment Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Violence and victims. 19(6) |
| ISSN: | 0886-6708 |
| Popis: | This study examined the relations between overt and relational aggression, social anxiety, loneliness, depressive symptoms, and alcohol and drug use in a sample of 287 undergraduate college students. Consistent with prior work, men reported engaging in more overt aggression than women. Contrary to our predictions, men also reported engaging in more relational aggression than women. Results also indicated that overt and relational aggression were positively associated with social anxiety, loneliness, depressive symptoms, alcohol use, and drug use for the overall sample. Hierarchical regression analyses showed positive relations between overt aggression and alcohol use for men and no relations between relational aggression and any psychosocial adjustment index. For women, overt aggression uniquely predicted social anxiety, loneliness, and depressive symptoms, whereas relational aggression uniquely predicted social anxiety, loneliness, depression, and alcohol and drug problems. Implications of these findings are discussed in terms of the role of peer aggression in students’ psychosocial adjustment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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