Villanueva, V., Cruz, A., Eslava, D., & Valdivia-Salas, S. (2018). Relation between agressive behavior and psychological inflexibility during adolescence: Preliminary findings. Informació Psicológica, 115, 108-119.
The purpose of this research was to determine the relation between psychological inflexibility and aggressiveness in a sample of adolescents, considering the gender perspective. This is a newfangled investigation given that both, the relationship between these two variables, and psychological inflexibility, have been hardly studied with adolescents. To this end, we conducted a transversal descriptive study with 499 Secondary Education students aged between 12 and 16 years. The results show the relevance of psychological inflexibility on aggressiveness, providing interesting results as compared to those reported so far with adults. These findings have important implications for the work of psychologists in professional settings, both at preventive levels and for the psychotherapeutic intervention with adolescents or groups of adolescents with clinical manifestations of aggressive behavior.