The Relationship Between Negative Life Events and Aggressive/Prosocial Behavior: A Latent Profile Analysis Based on Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction
Yanli Zhu, Mengzhu Jiang, Fan Feng, Defeng Xia, Cindy Harmon-Jones · 2025
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People react to hard life events in very different ways, and a 2025 study by Yanli Zhu and co-authors sorts those reactions into patterns. The work draws on self-determination theory and asks how well a person's basic mental needs are met when stress hits.
A survey of 1,596 people in China, most of them young adults, was sorted with a person-centered method into four groups. One group stayed self-focused, one turned stress into aggression, one mixed aggression with other drives, and one leaned toward helping others. The groups also differed in empathy and in how fully their basic needs were met. The authors say support programs should be shaped for each pattern, not offered as one size for all.
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| CREATOR | Yanli Zhu, Mengzhu Jiang, Fan Feng, Defeng Xia, Cindy Harmon-Jones |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |