Citation

Pérez-Fuentes MC, Molero Jurado MDM, Barragán Martín AB, Gázquez Linares JJ. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019; 16(3): e16030478.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Región Metropolitana, Providencia 7500000, Chile. jlinares@ual.es.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/ijerph16030478

PMID

30736326

Abstract

Aggressive behavior in adolescence is influenced by a diversity of individual, family, and social variables. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between family functioning, emotional intelligence, and personal values for development with different types of aggression, as well as to establish profiles with these variables according to the aggression. The study was carried out with a sample of 317 high school students aged 13 to 18 years old. The study showed that stress management (emotional intelligence), positive adolescent development, and family functioning predominated in nonaggressive subjects with higher scores than aggressors did. There was also a negative relationship between the different types of aggression and emotional intelligence, positive values, and family functioning. In addition, two different profiles were found. The first profile had less family functioning, interpersonal emotional intelligence, stress management, and fewer personal and social values than the second profile.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescent values; aggressive behavior; emotional intelligence; family functioning