Proactive aggression is typically motivated by a reward contingency. In other words, the individual uses this form of aggression to receive something in return. 

Proactive aggression

Reactive aggression is an impulsive response to a perceived immediate threat or frustration. An example of this form of aggression would be yelling or hitting another individual that provoked them.



Reactive aggression 

- What motivates the aggression/anger, the why
- The form of aggressive behavior (intrapersonal or relational)

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- Proactive or reactive:
- Physical
- Emotional 
- Verbal


Variations of Aggression

Matthys, & Lochman, J. E. (2017). Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder in childhood (Second edition.). Wiley Blackwell.


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