title: Reactive and proactive aggression: attachment and social competence predictors.
abstract: In this study, 107 boys and girls aged 3 to 8 years were rated by their mothers on 6 factors: Reactive and Proactive Aggression, Secure and Insecure Attachment, and Prosocial Orientation and Social Initiative (i.e., social competence). Both secure attachment and prosocial orientation predicted proactive and reactive aggression, but prosocial orientation mediated the attachment-aggression relation in the case of reactive but not proactive aggression.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, USA. rm10@umail.umd.edu
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Marcus
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kramer
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011581:Psychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires