How Social Desirability Influences the Association Between Extraversion and Reactive Aggression: A Suppression Effect Study

• In Event: Poster Session for Quantitative Methods and Statistical Theory

Abstract

Aggressive behavior in the period of the transition from childhood to adolescence has adverse effects, such as school drop-out, behavior problems, unemployment, social maladjustment, and criminal offending. Extraversion as a core dimension of personality can help to understand the development of late childhood and early adolescence aggression. The present study examined the suppression effect of social desirability influencing the relation between extraversion and reactive aggression through testing the mediation effect of social desirability within the framework of structural equation modeling. The results showed social desirability, serving as a suppressor, carried out the negative association between extraversion and reactive aggression. There was a statistically significant positive relationship between extraversion and reactive aggression after controlling the effect of social desirability.

Authors

• Xiaowen Liu, Tianjin Normal University

• Xin Liu, Beijing Luhe Hospital