{"title":"Hurt Others or Hurt Self? Reciprocal Relations Among Neuroticism and Bullying Perpetration/Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Over Time","authors":"Xinru Tang, Ruibo Xie, Jiaying Cheng, Jingning Liu, Weijian Li, Wan Ding","doi":"10.1002/ab.70082","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ab.70082","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>School bullying perpetration and non-suicidal self-injury are two major public health challenges in adolescence. The interplay between these behaviors and neuroticism, as well as the underlying mechanisms, has received increasing attention. However, the complex interplay among neuroticism, bullying perpetration and NSSI remains underexplored. Based on this, the present study followed Chinese adolescents (<i>N</i> = 1214; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 15.46, SD<sub>age</sub> = 0.71; 39.30% girls) across three time points with 6-month intervals. Employing both traditional and random-intercept s, this study sought to elucidate the similarities and differences in the inter- and intra-individual relationships of neuroticism with bullying perpetration and with NSSI in adolescents. Bidirectional relationships were found in the Cross-Lagged Panel Model (CLPM) for all three pathways (neuroticism-bullying perpetration, bullying perpetration-NSSI, and neuroticism-NSSI). However, in the Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model(RI-CLPM), only the neuroticism-NSSI link remained significant, suggesting it is robust across levels of analysis. The CLPM showed that self-injury not only mediated the link from neuroticism to bullying perpetration, but also exhibited a mutually reinforcing relationship with bullying perpetration. These findings reveal that neuroticism, as a core trait of emotional vulnerability, constitutes a shared psychological root for both non-suicidal self-injury (internalizing aggression) and bullying others (externalizing aggression). This extends prior perspectives that examined internalizing and externalizing aggression separately, offering a reference for understanding the shared psychological underpinnings of these two aggressive manifestations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50842,"journal":{"name":"Aggressive Behavior","volume":"52 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148809299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael L. Crowe, Courtland S. Hyatt, Brett T. Litz, Terence M. Keane, Brian P. Marx
{"title":"The Correlates of Self-Reported Abusive Violence Among Post-9/11 U.S. Military Veterans","authors":"Michael L. Crowe, Courtland S. Hyatt, Brett T. Litz, Terence M. Keane, Brian P. Marx","doi":"10.1002/ab.70084","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ab.70084","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The frequency of reports of abusive violence among US service members deployed to post-9/11 operations and the psychosocial associations of participating in such behaviors are largely unexamined. We examined reports of participation in and observation of abusive violence behaviors in a sample of deployed veterans (<i>N</i> = 1345) and explored their correlates, which were contrasted with reports of exposure to combat stressors, using Emotional Processing Theory as a framework for variable selection. Forty percent of the sample (46% of men, 35% of women) endorsed observing at least one abusive violence behavior and fourteen percent of the sample (23% of men, 6% of women) reported participation in at least one abusive violence behavior. The nomological networks of abusive violence participation and observation were highly similar, but distinct from combat exposure. Abusive violence participation and observation were comparable to combat exposure in their associations with externalizing problems (e.g., alcohol and substance use), but each had consistently smaller associations with internalizing distress (e.g., depression, PTSD symptoms). Reports of exposure to abusive violence, particularly via observation, appear to be relatively common among deployed veterans with varying severities of internalizing distress, and these unique experiences are associated with a range of mental and behavioral health symptoms and functional difficulties that diverge from those associated with combat exposure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50842,"journal":{"name":"Aggressive Behavior","volume":"52 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148680795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Rodríguez-Pérez, Noelia Muñoz-Fernández, Maria Rosaria Nappa
{"title":"Perceptions of School Safety and Teachers' Responses in the Context of Appearance-Based Bullying: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study","authors":"Laura Rodríguez-Pérez, Noelia Muñoz-Fernández, Maria Rosaria Nappa","doi":"10.1002/ab.70083","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ab.70083","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Appearance-based bullying represents a specific form of stigmatizing victimization that can undermine students' perception of school as a safe environment, particularly during adolescence when bodily characteristics become central to identity and peer dynamics. Despite its relevance, there is limited evidence on the prevalence of appearance-based bullying and how teachers' responses shape perceptions of school safety for students whose appearance deviates from dominant standards. This two-wave short-term longitudinal study—conducted with a sample of 968 students aged 10–18 from eight schools in southern Spain (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 12.81, <i>SD</i> = 1.84; 45.8% girls; 68.8% secondary school)—pursued two aims: (1) to examine the prevalence of non-victimization, general bullying victimization, and appearance-based bullying victimization, and observe for differences by sex and educational level; and (2) to analyze whether sex, educational level, type of victimization, and students' perceptions of teachers' responses predict perceptions of school safety for students with diverse physical appearances. Appearance-based bullying victimization was reported by around 11% of students. There were no significant differences by sex or educational level in the distribution of victimization types. Latent profile analysis identified four distinct teacher response profiles: consistent intervention (67.3%), biased intervention (14.1%), ambivalent intervention (4.4%), and intermittent intervention (14.2%). Regression analyses showed that attending secondary school, experiencing appearance-based bullying, and perceiving inconsistent teacher responses were associated with perceptions of less school safety. The findings underscore the importance of coherent and sustained teachers' responses, as well as promoting school environments that explicitly affirm body diversity to foster inclusive and protective climates.</p>","PeriodicalId":50842,"journal":{"name":"Aggressive Behavior","volume":"52 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13434199/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148671259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disentangling Between- and Within-Person Effects of Nonphysical Aggression and Nonphysical Victimization Over Time in Adolescence","authors":"Ju-Chu Hsu, Wen-Chi Wu, Ji-Kang Chen","doi":"10.1002/ab.70080","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ab.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Nonphysical aggression and victimization are common in adolescence, yet their long-term associations remain poorly understood, particularly with regard to within-person processes. To disentangle stable between-person differences from dynamic within-person associations, this study employed a random-intercept cross-lagged panel model with four waves of data collected every 6 months over 2 years from 856 Taiwanese adolescents aged 13–16. At the between-person level, adolescents with higher average levels of nonphysical aggression tended to report higher average levels of nonphysical victimization. At the within-person level, positive deviations from an individual's mean level of nonphysical aggression were associated with subsequent negative deviations from their mean level of nonphysical victimization, whereas deviations in victimization did not predict later deviations in aggression. Multigroup analyses indicated no gender differences in within-person associations; however, boys had higher average levels of nonphysical aggression than girls at the between-person level. These findings suggest that adolescents’ within-person changes in nonphysical aggression may reflect short-term functional processes that differ from the stable risk patterns observed at the between-person level. Intervention strategies are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50842,"journal":{"name":"Aggressive Behavior","volume":"52 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148671309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indirect But Lasting: Linking Indirect Aggression Use Over Childhood to Future Adjustment While Considering Conduct Problems","authors":"Stéphanie Boutin, Émiliane Larrivée, Michèle Déry","doi":"10.1002/ab.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Frequent and recurrent indirect aggressive (IA) behaviors (e.g., spreading false rumors, ignoring) are associated with later detrimental consequences. This high IA use appears to be more frequent among children with conduct problems, making it difficult to determine whether the negative outcomes of IA are related to other conduct problems or whether IA makes a distinct contribution. Therefore, the present study aims to determine whether a high trajectory of IA use from around 8 years of age to around 13 years of age is associated with negative outcomes at around 17 years of age controlling for conduct problems and other confounding variables (age, sex, income). Data for this study are drawn from an ongoing longitudinal project involving 744 children (46.8% girls), including 434 with conduct problems, recruited from eight school boards in Quebec, Canada. IA and conduct problems were measured by a composite score of parents‘ and teachers‘ ratings. Outcomes were measured by self-reported data on depressive and anxiety symptoms, life satisfaction, substance use, delinquent behaviors, social support network, and school dropout risk. Controlling for conduct problems and other confounding variables, analyses using the manual BCH method in Mplus show that high and stable IA use is associated with more problematic substance use, more delinquent behaviors, and a higher probability to drop out of school. Thus, even if conduct problems account for a large proportion of maladjustment, IA explains a significant amount of unique variance and should thus be considered as an important screening indicator.</p>","PeriodicalId":50842,"journal":{"name":"Aggressive Behavior","volume":"52 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ab.70079","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148617294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Longitudinal Studies of Media Violence and Aggression: A Rejoinder to Lacko et al.'s (2026) Comment","authors":"Zhaojun Teng, Brad J. Bushman","doi":"10.1002/ab.70078","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ab.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lacko et al. responded to the concerns raised in our commentary, providing an opportunity to reflect on broader methodological and theoretical issues in longitudinal research on media violence and aggression. This exchange highlights five lessons for future research: (1) longitudinal studies should place greater emphasis on developmental processes; (2) analytical approaches and the interpretation of findings are important; (3) examining the longitudinal effects of media violence on aggression requires high-quality longitudinal data; (4) greater transparency and openness in both data and analytical methods strengthen the field; and (5) future research should place greater emphasis on understanding when, how, and for whom media violence influences aggression. We hope these lessons will contribute to more rigorous longitudinal research and a deeper understanding of the developmental processes linking media violence and aggression.</p>","PeriodicalId":50842,"journal":{"name":"Aggressive Behavior","volume":"52 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ab.70078","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148426194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bidirectional Relationship Between Bullying Perpetration/Victimization and Peer Relationships: Evidence From a Weekly Diary Method","authors":"Yanhui Xiang, Ziruo Zhang, Xi Li","doi":"10.1002/ab.70075","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ab.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>While evidence indicates a connection between bullying involvement (perpetration and victimization) and peer relationships, the direction of this relationship remains debated. It is unclear whether peer relationships are a consequence or a precursor to bullying, and whether such association varies by gender. To address these gaps and capture fluctuations in daily school life, the present study employed a weekly diary method to examine the bidirectional relationships between bullying perpetration/victimization and peer relationships, as well as potential gender differences. A total of 452 adolescents (285 boys, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 12.90, <i>SD</i><sub>age</sub> = 0.48) completed the 7-week diary survey. Multilevel modelling revealed that weekly bullying/victimization significantly predicted subsequent decreases in peer relationships, while peer relationships did not predict later bullying or victimization, indicating a unidirectional pathway. Gender analyses showed that gender did not moderate these links but did differentiate bullying patterns: stratified analyses further revealed the unidirectional pathway only in boys, where verbal and relational perpetration/victimization predicted later declines in peer relationships. These findings not only theoretically expand our understanding of the dynamic interplay between bullying and peer relationships, unveiling unique cultural and social mechanisms of psychological bullying among boys, but also provide empirical evidence for developing targeted anti-bullying interventions for adolescent boys.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50842,"journal":{"name":"Aggressive Behavior","volume":"52 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148363679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online Media Characteristics of Cyberbullying: A Meta-Analysis","authors":"Ma Xiaoyue, Zhang Liubin","doi":"10.1002/ab.70077","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ab.70077","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Cyberbullying has emerged as a prominent form of online aggression, yet evidence on the role of online media remains fragmented because media-related variables are often treated as broad and undifferentiated constructs. This meta-analysis synthesized associations between six characteristics of online media use and cyberbullying perpetration. A systematic search of international databases identified 97 eligible studies published between 2004 and 2025, comprising 248,316 participants. Random-effects models were used to estimate pooled correlations, and moderator analyses examined cultural background and temporal patterns of content exposure. Five of the six focal variables were significantly associated with cyberbullying perpetration. Exposure to online violent content, exposure to online sexually explicit content, duration of online media use, and perceived online anonymity were positively associated with cyberbullying, whereas media literacy was negatively associated with it. Among these variables, perceived online anonymity showed the strongest association. By contrast, exposure to online prosocial content was not significantly associated with cyberbullying. Moderator analyses indicated that temporal pattern significantly moderated the association between exposure to online violent content and cyberbullying, with stronger coefficients for short-term than for long-term exposure. Most other subgroup differences were not significant. Sensitivity analyses showed that, despite substantial heterogeneity in most models, the overall pattern of findings remained stable. These findings suggest that online media should not be treated as a unitary correlate of cyberbullying. Distinguishing specific media characteristics may help refine theory and inform more targeted prevention efforts in online contexts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50842,"journal":{"name":"Aggressive Behavior","volume":"52 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148320500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas F. Denson, Eddie Harmon-Jones, Johannes Larsson, Ashlee Curtis, Travis Harries, Peter G. Miller
{"title":"“It Was Like They'd Lit a Fuse”: A Mixed-Methods Investigation Into Rage","authors":"Thomas F. Denson, Eddie Harmon-Jones, Johannes Larsson, Ashlee Curtis, Travis Harries, Peter G. Miller","doi":"10.1002/ab.70076","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ab.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Impulsive acts of violence are perpetrated by a small proportion of society, which anecdotal evidence suggests often occurs in a rage state. Rage has generally been conceptualized as extreme anger, but it may be qualitatively different from extreme anger. Is rage best considered as part of the anger continuum or is it a different phenomenon altogether? The present research addressed this question in a large sample of university students (<i>N</i> = 545) who completed qualitative and quantitative measures of rage attacks, anger, emotional dysregulation, trait aggression and displaced aggression, angry rumination, adverse childhood events, head injuries, drug and alcohol use, and borderline personality disorder traits. Qualitative results showed that rage experiences are similar to anger experiences, but with some unique components. Path analysis found a similar pattern of correlates for rage and anger. Emotion dysregulation, trait physical aggression, trait displaced aggression, and borderline personality disorder traits predicted both rage and anger. Finally, in a latent profile analysis, we identified two subgroups of participants who are at risk for rage and anger. These findings largely support rage as a type of extreme anger with some additional features (e.g., loss of control, tunnel vision, aggression). Targeting the dysregulated aspects of people's personalities as early as possible may assist in reducing anger and rage.</p>","PeriodicalId":50842,"journal":{"name":"Aggressive Behavior","volume":"52 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ab.70076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148320486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ignazio Puzzo, Anam Hamid-Saifullah, Simona Cantarella, Anna Fieldwalker, Luke Aldridge-Waddon, Veena Kumari
{"title":"The Independent and Combined Roles of Attentional and Interpretative Biases in Antisocial Behavior, Trait Aggression and Aggressive Responses Under Provocation","authors":"Ignazio Puzzo, Anam Hamid-Saifullah, Simona Cantarella, Anna Fieldwalker, Luke Aldridge-Waddon, Veena Kumari","doi":"10.1002/ab.70074","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ab.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Aggressive behavior has been linked to biases in social information processing, including heightened attention to threat and hostile interpretations of ambiguous social cues. The extent to which attention and interpretational biases uniquely or jointly contribute to aggression under provocation remains unclear. The present study investigated the effects of attentional bias toward angry faces and hostile interpretation bias on aggression using both self-report and behavioral measures in a non-clinical sample. Participants (<i>n</i> = 67) completed an emotional attentional blink task and a hostile interpretation bias measure, alongside self-report indices of aggression and antisocial behavior, and an experimental measure of provoked aggression. Hostile interpretation bias was positively associated with self-reported aggression and antisocial tendencies, whereas attentional bias toward angry faces was selectively associated with behavioral aggression. Critically, these cognitive biases were examined as potentially independent, overlapping, or interactive contributors to aggression under provocation, and attentional and interpretation biases interacted to predict aggressive behavior under conditions of high provocation, such that individuals high in both biases displayed the greatest levels of aggression. No interaction effects were observed for self-reported outcomes. These findings support social information-processing models proposing that multiple cognitive biases jointly contribute to aggression and highlight the importance of considering situational provocation and outcome modality when examining cognitive risk factors for aggressive behavior and preventive cognitive interventions in at risk populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":50842,"journal":{"name":"Aggressive Behavior","volume":"52 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ab.70074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148254072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}