The aim of the study was to analyze the temporal (though not necessarily causal) personality-situation relationship by examining pathways for aggressiveness and the main dimensions of DIAMONDS situational traits. The study presented here analyzed a specific group of participants, juveniles (N=726) referred by the courts to educational and probation centers. Our two-wave analyses suggested that the relationships between aggressiveness and perceptions of the educational situation were not reciprocal. We found that aggressiveness measured at Time 1 was positively related to perceptions of the situation as negative and cheating at Time 2. In contrast, none of the eight DIAMONDS situation dimensions at T1 were related to aggressiveness at T2. The results show that aggressiveness can explain how juveniles define educational situation.
Book of Abstracts [Unofficial – Accepted Presentation, Abstract Submission Ongoing]
Perceptions of Educational Situations and Aggressiveness: Analysis of a Two-Wave Study Among Juveniles and Pedagogical Implications