The longitudinal relationships among agreeableness, anger rumination, and aggression
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The longitudinal relationships among agreeableness, anger rumination, and aggression Fangying Quan 1,2 & Rujiao Yang 1,3 & Ling-Xiang Xia 1,3
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Abstract Aggression is a type of negative social behavior. Agreeableness and anger-related cognition are thought to be important factors that affect aggression. The longitudinal relations among agreeableness, anger-related cognition and aggression, and the affective cognitive path underlying the relationship between agreeableness and aggression are not clear, however. In this study, 942 college students were investigated twice at an interval of six months, using the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire, Anger Rumination Scale, and agreeableness subscale of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory. The results indicate that: agreeableness negatively predicts anger rumination and aggression after six months; anger rumination positively predicts aggression over time; and anger rumination mediates the longitudinal association between agreeableness and aggression. These results suggest that the prosocial personality may withstand aggression through resisting anger-related cognition. This study deepens our understanding of the relationships between personality and aggression, allowing a development of the General Aggression Model, in terms of recognizing the cognitive pathway for personality to influence aggression, and provides theoretical guidance on reducing the generation of aggression in daily life. Keywords Aggression . Agreeableness . Anger rumination . Longitudinal design . Mediation
Introduction Aggression is one of the most important factors affecting individual physical and mental health, daily life, and social stability. It not only has widespread negative impacts on the victim (Ybrandt and Armelius 2010) and the public (Foster and Jones 2005), but also has a long-term negative impact on the aggressor themselves (Smeets et al. 2016). Scholars and the public have long been focused on the factors that influence of aggression (Dodge and Somberg 1987; Knight et al. 2018; Nelson et al. 2014).
Current aggression theories—such as the General Aggression Model (GAM; Anderson and Bushman 2002; DeWall et al. 2011) and the I3 theory (Denson et al. 2012) emphasize that personality and aggression-related cognition play an important role in the generation of aggression. For example, a meta-analysis study (Bettencourt et al. 2006) and further empirical studies (e.g., García-Sancho et al. 2017; Pailing et al. 2014) have proposed and supported that low agreeableness is likely to be an important personality variable that can trigger aggression across a variety of situations.
Fangying Quan and Rujiao Yang contributed equally to this work.
Agreeableness and Aggression
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-020-01030-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Ling-Xiang Xia [email protected] 1
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