Distinctiveness of reactive and proactive aggression from a variable- and person-based approach in juvenile offenders and community youth

Maneiro Boo, LorenaArgudo Palacios, AarónGómez Fraguela, Xosé Antón2023-01-242023-01-242022Maneiro, L., Argudo, A. & Gómez-Fraguela, X.A. Distinctiveness of Reactive and Proactive Aggression from a Variable- and Person-based Approach in Juvenile Offenders and Community Youth. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01479-50009-398Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10347/29990The goal of this study was to examine the distinctiveness of reactive aggression (RA) and proactive aggression (PA) from a variable- and person-based approach, their psychosocial correlates and behavioral outcomes, and analyze their replicability across two samples of adolescents. The forensic sample was composed of 231 juvenile offenders and the community sample included 321 youth. At a variable-based level, the results of the factor analysis supported the original two-factor model of aggression, and RA and PA showed differential associations with a set of psychosocial correlates and behavioral outcomes. At a person-based level, three subgroups were identified, namely low aggression, moderate RA, and mixed aggression. The mixed aggression group showed the most severe profile in both samples. These results support the distinctiveness of RA and PA at a variable-based level but lead to consider PA as a severity marker rather than a distinct subgroup at a person-based leveleng© 2022 The Authors. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Atribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Reactive aggressionProactive aggressionBehavioral profilesJuvenile offendersAdolescentsDistinctiveness of reactive and proactive aggression from a variable- and person-based approach in juvenile offenders and community youthjournal article10.1007/s10578-022-01479-51573-3327open access