Association between aggressiveness, cooperative and competitive personality among middle school students in Guizhou Province

Objective To explore associations between aggressiveness with cooperative and competitive personality among middle school students.Methods All the students from 6 schools in Guizhou Province were selected by a stratified random cluster sampling.The Buss Aggressive Scale (BAS) and the Scale of Cooperative and Competitive Personality (CCPS) was implemented among 1 478 students.The implicit association test (IAT) was carried out among 110 students.Results Boys had higher explicit aggressiveness and competitive personality than girls (t=2.004,2.232,P<0.05),girls had higher implicit self-aggressive beliefs than boys (t =2.468,P<0.05).Senior middle school students had higher explicit aggressiveness than junior middle school students (t =-2.425,P<0.05).There was no statistical age difference in implicit aggressiveness.Explicit aggressiveness scores were negatively correlated with cooperative personality(P<0.01),positively correlated with competitive personality(P<0.01).No significant correlations between implicit aggressiveness,cooperative and competitive personality were found.Conclusion Explicit aggressiveness closely correlates with cooperative and competitive personality among middle school students.