Reactive and Proactive Aggression among Children and Adolescents: A Latent Profile Analysis and Latent Transition Analysis.

ABSTRACT: The present study aimed to explore children's and adolescents' profiles of reactive and proactive aggression and the stability of those profiles over a six-month period using latent profile analysis (LPA) and latent transition analysis (LTA). Data were collected at two measurement points from a sample of N = 1468 children and adolescents aged from 9 to 18 years. Results of LPA revealed three distinct profiles, labeled as "Severe Reactively and Proactively Aggressive (S-RA-PA)", "Highly Reactively and Proactively Aggressive" (H-RA-PA), and "Moderately Low Reactively and Proactively Aggressive" (M-RA-PA). All profiles appeared to be relatively stable over six months, supporting their within-sample consistency. The most stable and largest profile was the "M-RA-PA" profile, while the le

SUBMITTER: Lohbeck A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9688458 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature