The Moderating Effects of Internal-External Control on the Relationship Between Anger-in and Behavioral Displaced Aggression in Adolescents: Focusing on Gender Difference
AUTHOR : 임혜은, 한세영
INFORMATION : page. 93~103 / 2023 Vol.30 No.2
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to examine the influences of anger-in on behavioral displaced aggression in adolescents. In addition, the study aims to verify the moderating effects of internal-external control. The participants were a total of 500 adolescents(245 boys and 255 girls) in a middle and high school of South Korea who completed questionnaires by self-reporting. The data were analyzed using correlation analysis, t-test and multiple regression. The main results of this study are as follows. First, anger-in, behavioral displaced aggression and external control showed significant gender differences between male and female groups, but internal control did not show significant gender differences. Second, anger-in had a direct significant effect on adolescents’ behavioral displaced aggression. Third, internal control had a significant moderating effect between male and female adolescents’ anger-in and behavioral displaced aggression. External control did not have a moderating effect. In conclusion, this study has a significant implication in that the level of vulnerability is different according to gender in adolescents.
This suggests that a differentiated approach according to gender is needed and can infer that internal control acts as a protective factor and a buffer to reduce and prevent behavioral displaced aggression in the relationship between anger-in and behavioral displaced aggression. Therefore, this study has important significance and value in that it provides a psychological mechanism for early intervention of behavioral displaced aggression in adolescents.