ABSTRACT
This chapter considers aggression motivation and inhibition. Human aggression remains subject to extensive exploration and theoretical reflection. A number of dichotomous distinctions exist in the aggression literature including those that attend to its form and those that consider its function or motivation. Prior to describing the Applied Integrated Model of Aggression Motivation (AIM-AM), it is perhaps important to briefly consider theories of human motivation and decision-making more generally. Problematic childhood behaviours, negative childhood experiences and dismissive avoidant adult attachments featured as developmental factors most relevant to the positive social outcomes aggression motivation. Building on the previous two studies, this research further examined the components of aggression motivation and inhibition, and their association with interfering personality disorder traits and emotion regulation strategies. According to the AIM-AM, developmental and life experiences promote vulnerabilities towards aggression. Existing integrated models of aggression delineate how multiple factors interact and culminate in aggression.
