@article{ref1,
title="Reactive and proactive aggression among children and adolescents: a latent profile analysis and latent transition analysis",
journal="Children (Basel, Switzerland)",
year="2022",
author="Lohbeck, Annette",
volume="9",
number="11",
pages="-",
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. <br><br>RESULTS of LPA revealed three distinct profiles, labeled as &quot;Severe Reactively and Proactively Aggressive (S-RA-PA)&quot;, &quot;Highly Reactively and Proactively Aggressive&quot; (H-RA-PA), and &quot;Moderately Low Reactively and Proactively Aggressive&quot; (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 &quot;M-RA-PA&quot; profile, while the least stable and smallest profile was the &quot;S-RA-PA&quot; profile. However, there was also some within-person variability in children's and adolescents' profile membership because almost 40-50% of the participants of the &quot;S-RA-PA&quot; and &quot;H-RA-PA&quot; profiles transitioned to another profile across six months. In contrast, more than 90% of the participants of the &quot;M-RA-PA&quot; profile remained in their profile. These results provide a dynamic picture of children's and adolescents' development of reactive and proactive aggression and bear several implications from a short longitudinal person-oriented perspective.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2227-9067",
doi="10.3390/children9111733",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9111733"
}