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aggression used to hurt another person or gain an advantage. HGD, Chapter 8, p. 207

Examples:
There are many theories as to what causes hostile-aggressive behavior in children. Several which are especially important to teachers are as follows:

Modeling:

Children observe hostile-aggressive behavior modeled by parents, teachers, peers, and in the media.

Threats from parents, yelled reprimands from teachers, and violence among peers and in the media are then

mimicked by the child.

Peer Reinforcement:

Behavior such as fighting is reinforced by peers when they take sides in or cheer for

individuals who are fighting. This leads to an increase in hostile-aggressive behavior.

Social Skills Deficit:

Children lack the social skills necessary to deal with stressful situations in an assertive

rather than aggressive manner. Their repertoire of problem-solving skills is limited to aggression, so they use this

to fulfill their needs.

Low Self-Esteem:

The hostile-aggressive child acts out of anger. This reflects poor self-image and an identity of

failure "resulting from an inability to satisfy two basic needs: giving and receiving love, and having a sense of

worth" (Medick, p. 73, 1979). They believe that it is not all right to feel anger and frustration and think they are

bad people when they do have these feelings. Their behavior has led to rejection by both adults and peers, which

causes their self-esteem to further plummet.




 * Punching walls out of anger
 * Punching people out of anger
 * Dramatic mood swings
 * Pretty much doing anything violent out of anger
 * Pretty much doing anything violent out of anger

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Hostile Aggression is usually triggered by someone having a problem with someone or something. This is not shocking because most people struggle with some sort of aggression, just hostile aggression is taking it one step further.

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