SynthesisChild development2019
Hostile Intent Attribution and Aggressive Behavior in Children Revisited: A Meta-Analysis.
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55 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Popularity, but not likability, as a risk factor for low empathy: A longitudinal examination of within- and between-person effects of peer status and empathy in adolescence.Developmental psychology · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Hostile Intent Attribution and Aggression in Japanese Children.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Assessing youth's internal and external attributions to negative peer interactions and victimization-development of the Causal Attributions for Peer Experiences (CAPE) scale.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Article
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- He Said, She Said: a Dyadic Perspective on Adolescent Conflict Management and Dating Violence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Anger and Aggression in Russian Adolescents.JAACAP open · 2025Article
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Abstract
To test specific hypotheses about the relation between hostile intent attribution (HIA) and children's aggressive behavior, a multilevel meta-analysis was conducted on 111 studies with 219 effect sizes and 29.272 participants. A positive association between HIA and aggression was found, but effect sizes varied widely between studies. Results suggested that HIA is a general disposition guiding behavior across a broad variety of contexts, whereas the strength of the relation between HIA and aggression depends on the level of emotional engagement. The relation is stronger for more reliable HIA measures, but is not stronger for reactive aggression or co-morbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder than for aggression in general. The importance of understanding specific moderators of effect size for theory development is discussed.
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