Resumen

RESTREPO, Jorge Emiro  y  ACOSTA-TOBON, Sergio Andrés. Characterization of aggressiveness in adolescents with severe conduct disorder: an exploratory study. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2023, vol.17, n.1, pp.57-69.  Epub 02-Nov-2023. ISSN 1900-2386.  https://doi.org/10.21500/19002386.6291.

Severe conduct disorder is a notable social and mental health problem in child and adolescent population. Here we present the results of a descriptive quantitative research with the general objective of characterizing aggressiveness in a group of adolescents with this type of disorder. The study was carried out with young people from a preventive detention center who were in the process of judicialization, not yet sanctioned, but deprived of their liberty. A total of 115 males were selected by convenience and five measurement instruments were applied: the Motives for Aggression Inventory, the Aggressive Situations and Behavior Inventory, the Buss-Perry

Aggression Questionnaire, the Proactive and Reactive Aggressiveness Questionnaire, and the Appetitive Aggressiveness Scale. The main motive for aggression was to get something they wanted, they were aggressive for no reason, they frequently expressed anger, threatened people they knew, got angry when they had disagreements, believed that others made fun of them behind their backs, felt good after physically or verbally assaulting someone, carried weapons to use in fights, and considered that fighting was the only thing they wanted to do in life.

Palabras clave : juvenile delinquency; antisocial behavior; anger; hostility.

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