Heterogeneity of Relationally Aggressive Adolescents in Taiwan: Direct and Indirect Relational Aggression

Ching Ling Cheng*

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摘要

Relational aggressors mistreat their targets in covert ways; however, they also inflict psychological harm to victims. A clarification of the distinctive function of the perpetrators’ destructive patterns would be helpful for interventional consideration. This study’s purpose was to, first, explore the classification of relational aggression (RA) by means of operational channels, and then, to examine the psychosocial characteristics of each subtype. The participants were 860 junior high school students (431 boys, Mage = 14.2) from four schools in Taiwan. Self-reported measures of empathy, normative beliefs of RA, and coping strategy of interpersonal conflicts were used for data collection, as well as peer-nominated measures of RA and peer acceptance. By means of cluster analyses, five clusters were identified: direct, indirect, severe/combined, mild/combined, and uninvolved. The meaningfulness of the resultant cluster solution was examined through the analysis of social-cognitive, affective, and behavioral features as well as psychosocial adjustment. The findings indicated that different subgroups of relational aggressors demonstrated distinct psychosocial characteristics. In particular, in contrast to non-involved adolescents, the direct group tended to regard RA as acceptable, and the indirect group was more likely to rely on social support and have negative emotional reactions in dealing with interpersonal problems.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)3035-3052
頁數18
期刊Journal of Interpersonal Violence
29
發行號16
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2014 11月 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 臨床心理學
  • 應用心理學

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