ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors focus on the relation between aggression and emotion in children and adolescents. They examines the link between aggression and the specific emotion of anger. Finally, they emphasizes applications of knowledge of the anger–aggression relation to intervention programs for aggressive children and adolescents. Researchers originally hypothesized that distinct groups of aggressive children existed, with one group displaying primarily reactive aggression and the other group displaying primarily proactive aggression. Exposing children to actual anger-inducing experiences provides them with an opportunity to practice their anger regulation skills online. Parent-focused interventions are still largely behavioral, with emphasis on training parents to spend positive time with children, praise positive behaviors, ignore minor misbehaviors, give clear and consistent commands, and use time-out effectively. The distinction and connection between anger and aggression has long been misunderstood.
