Negative urgency and emotion regulation strategy use: Associations with displaced aggression
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The numerous public health consequences of interpersonal aggression highlight the necessity of a comprehensive understanding of factors influencing its perpetration. This study examined direct and interactive associations between negative urgency and emotion regulation strategy use in predicting displaced aggression under conditions of negative mood. Participants were 197 male and female undergraduate students who were randomly assigned to employ either cognitive reappraisal or expressive suppression in response to a negative mood induction. Immediately afterwards, participants engaged in an analog displaced aggression task. Results revealed direct, positive associations between negative urgency and aggression. In addition, the use of suppression was associated with greater aggression than was the use of reappraisal alone. Counter to the hypothesis, there were no interactive effects between negative urgency and emotion regulation strategy use in predicting aggression. Findings suggest reducing negative urgency and use of suppression as potential intervention targets for individuals who engage in aggressive behavior.
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Negative urgency significantly and positively relates to IPV in laboratory contexts when negative affect is high.
“In addition to these established associations, negative urgency significantly and positively relates to IPV in laboratory contexts when negative affect is high, supporting its role in an unfolding event-level time course as an impelling factor of future aggressive behaviors (Bresin et al., 2022; Scott et al., 2015).”
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“Similar to our findings, another study also found that cognitive emotion regulation strategies did not moderate the association between negative urgency and displaced aggression among intimate partners (Scott et al., 2015).”
- Authors
- Scott, J. P., DiLillo, D., Maldonado, R. C., & Watkins, L. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln (US)
- Corresponding author
- Scott, Jillian Panuzio
- Venue
- Aggressive Behavior
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-03-09
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 502-512
- ISSN
- 0096-140X (ISSN-L)
- 1098-2337
- OpenAlex
- W1909360688
- Cited by
- 52
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 8.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Aggressive Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Lincoln (University of Nebraska) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- negative urgency, emotion regulation strategies, displaced aggression, cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, negative mood, interpersonal aggression, aggression perpetration, intervention targets
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Affect, Aggression, Emotions, Female, Humans, Impulsive Behavior, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Middle Aged, Psychological Tests, Young Adult, Emotional Intelligence
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