Paper Title

A test of sex differences in aggressive response to hypothetical conflict situations.

Authors

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Stephanie A. Sanders
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June Machover Reinisch

Keywords

  • Aggressive Response
  • Sex Differences
  • Conflict Situations
  • Physical Aggression
  • Verbal Aggression
  • Coping Strategies
  • Behavioral Responses
  • Retrospective Analysis
  • Interpersonal Conflict
  • Adolescence
  • Response Hierarchy
  • Aggression Measurement
  • Gender Differences
  • Aggression Preferences
  • Aggression Hierarchies

Journal

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology External link

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DOI

DOI Icon 10.1037/0022-3514.50.5.1045

Publication Info

Volume: 50 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 1045–1049

Published On

March, 1986

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Abstract

Administered the response hierarchy (RH), developed by A. D. Leifer and D. F. Roberts (1972) and revised by J. M. Reinisch (see record 1982-00859-001), to 289 male and 268 female college students. The RH provides a retrospective estimate of where physical and verbal aggression reside in an individual's hierarchy of possible behavioral responses to hypothetical conflict situations in adolescence. Results indicate that the RH consistently demonstrated sex differences among Ss in retrospectively reported preference for choosing physical aggression vs other coping strategies as a response to hypothetical interpersonal conflict situations of adolescence. (31 ref) (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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