Citation

Bell GR, Crothers LM, Hughes TL, Kanyongo GY, Kolbert JB, Parys K. J. Appl. Sch. Psychol. 2018; 34(1): 65-85.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15377903.2017.1345814

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The authors examined the degree to which callous-unemotional traits and narcissism predict relational aggression, social aggression, and prosocial skills in a sample of 79 adolescent offenders (13-18 years old; 26% girls; 74% boys) attending a school for youth with behavior disorders in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Narcissism made a significant contribution to the prediction of both relational aggression and social aggression, accounting for most of the unique variance in the prediction of these indirect forms of aggression. Conversely, callous-unemotional traits--but not narcissism--made a significant contribution to the prediction of lower prosocial skills. Furthermore, in contrast to the large number of studies indicating gender differences in the expression of aggression, no significant gender differences in the present study were found.

Language: en

Keywords

behavior disorders; bullying; Callous-unemotional traits; relational aggression; social aggression