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ag·gres·sive
/ əˈgresiv/
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adj.
ready or likely to attack or confront; characterized by or resulting from aggression:
aggressive behavior.
∎
pursuing one's aims and interests forcefully, sometimes unduly so.
DERIVATIVES:
ag·gres·sive·ly
adv.
ag·gres·sive·ness
n.
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Relational aggression and peer relations: Gender and developmental issues
Magazine article from: Merrill - Palmer Quarterly; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...predictors of peer rejection in boys is physical aggression. Physical aggression in girls is much less common, and other behavioral...relationship between three behaviors (physical aggression, relational aggression, and prosocial behaviors...
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Aggression in adolescent dating relationships: predictors and prevention.
Magazine article from: The Prevention Researcher; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Craig, & Taradash, 2000). Aggression in adolescent dating relationships is...physical injury. Moreover, use of aggression in dating relationships may set in motion...and opportunity. Preventing dating aggression at this developmental stage may reap...
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Physical and psychological aggression in at-risk young couples: Stability and change in young adulthood
Magazine article from: Merrill - Palmer Quarterly; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Physical and psychological aggression was examined over a 2 1/2-year...be persistence in any physical aggression across time in the group of couples...second, that stability in levels of aggression toward a partner would be higher...
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Aggression in youth handball: Relationships between goal orientations and induced motivational context
Magazine article from: Social Behavior and Personality; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...collective performance) on observed aggression. Ten handball games, 5 under each...distinction between instrumental and hostile aggression. The results indicated (a) significant...Motivational Profile on observed instrumental aggression. In a collective performance-induced...
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Reactive and proactive aggression: stability of constructs and relations to correlates.
Magazine article from: Journal of Genetic Psychology; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...deliberate, and purposeful. A theoretical distinction has been made between the two types of aggression--reactive aggression and proactive aggression (Dodge, 1991; Dodge & Coie, 1987; Vitaro & Brendgen, in press). Reactive...
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Relational aggression and psychosocial adjustment in intercollegiate athletes.
Magazine article from: Journal of Sport Behavior; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Aggression among athletes has received increasing...past research with athletes has defined aggression in terms of physical or verbal acts...are more characteristic of male's aggression than of female's, who are more likely...
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Aggression in Toddlers: Associations With Parenting and Marital Relations.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Journal of Genetic Psychology; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...factors, marital relations, and toddler aggression. A structured questionnaire was administered...maternal child-rearing and parental aggression domains had a direct effect on toddler aggression. The domain of maternal child rearing...
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Relational aggression in childhood and adolescence: etiology, characteristics, diagnostic assessment, and treatment.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Counseling and Human Development; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...research to date has been directed to aggression in boys and, most recently, on bullying...shifts to studies involving relationship aggression in girls within the overall context of aggression and in comparison to aggression in boys...
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Rethinking aggression: A typological examination of the functions of aggression
Magazine article from: Merrill - Palmer Quarterly; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the negative outcomes associated with aggression and the fact that aggressive behavior...seemingly paradoxical advantages of aggression, highlight the need for improved approaches...specific subgroups of youth for whom aggression is clearly maladaptive but also to reveal...
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Aggression and adaptive functioning: The bright side to bad behavior
Magazine article from: Merrill - Palmer Quarterly; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Development (Minneapolis, 2001) entitled Aggression and Adaptive Functioning: The Bright...underreported aspect of human behavior: That aggression in certain contexts may be associated...about aggressive behavior and trait aggression. We do not intend to suggest that the...
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Aggression
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
Aggression Aggression is behavior or a behavioral urge with the object of threatening or...members of one's own species. Several theories attempt to explain aggression. Theories of aggression The theory of instinct in ethology, as...
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aggression
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
aggression has been defined as a behaviour characterized...important features. It is well known that aggression is not a simple, single category of behaviour. Several classifications of aggression have been proposed, some more elaborate...
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Aggression and Drugs: Research Issues
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
AGGRESSION AND DRUGS: RESEARCH ISSUES Alcohol...activation of brain mechanisms that control aggression, mainly in individuals who have already...The ethical dilemma of research on aggression in animals and humans is the demand...
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Aggressiveness/Aggression
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
AGGRESSIVENESS/AGGRESSION In the strict sense of the term...Freud described how in authentic aggression, eroticization is responsible for...two-stage view of the origin of aggression. Melanie Klein and her followers...
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Anger and Aggression
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
Anger and Aggression Definitions of anger vary from theorist...quickly restrained, and even verbal aggression was considered wrong. Some societies...indicated a sophisticated pattern of verbal aggression in the village, with ritual insults...
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