Reactive and proactive aggression: Stability of constructs and relations to correlates

Journal of Genetic Psychology

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 365-382

  McAuliffe, Meghan D ^a   Hubbard, Julie A ^a   Rubin, Ronnie M ^a   Morrow, Michael T ^a   Dearing, Karen F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Proactive aggression; Reactive aggression; Second grade students

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; UNIVERSITY;

AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; FACULTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARENTS; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 34547149982     PISSN: 00221325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/GNTP.167.4.365-382     Document Type: Article

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