@article{ref1,
title="Temporal stability of relational aggression profiles in adolescents",
journal="Journal of school psychology",
year="2022",
author="Voulgaridou, Ioanna and Kokkinos, Constantinos M. and Markos, Angelos and Fanti, Kostas",
volume="92",
number="",
pages="19-32",
abstract="The current study explored the temporal stability in relational aggressor's profiles over a 6-month period. Data were gathered at two time points from a sample of 2207 Greek junior high school students (52.8% females) aged between 13 and 16 (M = 14.04, SD = 0.81) years. This study also considered the role of callous-unemotional traits and hostile attribution bias in predicting profile membership. <br><br>RESULTS of latent profile and latent transition analyses revealed three distinct relational aggression profiles (i.e., low relational aggression, moderate relational aggression/high reactive indirect relational aggression, and high relational aggression). The examination of the short-term longitudinal stability of these profiles over a period of 6 months showed that their basic structure remained stable at both the within-sample and within-person level across measurement points. In addition, this study showed that callous-unemotional traits and hostile attribution bias affect adolescents' possibility of membership in all three profiles. Adolescents scoring high on callous-unemotional traits and hostile attribution bias were more likely to be associated with the more aggressive profiles, namely with the high relational aggression, and to a lesser extent, with the moderate relational aggression profile. Overall, this study demonstrated that the basic structure of relational aggression profiles remained stable across a short-term time period and provides numerous crucial practical implications including social-cognitive reframing interventions, as well as enhancement of social skills and empathic reactions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4405",
doi="10.1016/j.jsp.2022.02.001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2022.02.001"
}