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How to identify a person with an aggressive personality?
Aggression is a personality trait that is expressed more than anything in social interactions, and that deals with the management of anger.
These people have problems with how they express this emotion and the level at which they feel it. Interaction with them can very easily become aggressive, and even dangerous, that is why it is important that you learn to identify the characteristics of an aggressive person and what to do in these cases.
Also on some exceptional occasions, certain individuals behave aggressively without actually having anything directly against the victim, and attack them only with objectives linked to a different type of goal such as stealing or coercing someone.
However, we will focus on those people who have aggressiveness as a personality trait, that is, stable throughout their behavior.
What is the aggressive personality?
The aggressive personality is the group of psychological predispositions that causes certain people to adopt a hostile reaction or to attack others with relative ease in their social interactions.
With aggressiveness, we will refer to a group of activity patterns that have a high probability of appearance that includes from the most obvious physical quarrels to discrete actions or verbal and non-verbal expressions that involve provocation and attack.
In terms of legal terms, this is defined as conduct aimed at causing injury to another person.
The types of aggressiveness are physical aggressiveness such as hitting or kicking, verbal aggressiveness such as insults, non-verbal aggressiveness such as expressions of anger, indirect aggressiveness, that is, directed towards objects, and sexual aggressiveness.
What can be done in the face of an aggressive person?
It is important that above all you protect your physical, psychological and sexual integrity, no one has the right to harm you and this behavior is not acceptable under any conditions.
Keep your distance, aggressive people can very easily physically lash out at others.
Keep calm, it is important that you control your breathing and try not to get upset, as this can increase the aggressiveness of the other person and could put you in more danger.
Evaluate the situation, pay attention to the space and context in which they are in this situation to determine the best plan to follow, have in mind an escape route that you can take if necessary.
Take a look at how the aggressor is doing, pay attention to his hands, his posture and his tone to be able to determine what the level of aggressiveness is and what he would be able to do.
See if he can approach you and do something or if it is better to ask for help
Design an action plan before proceeding with anything, think about what you want the person to change and how you could achieve it at this time.
If it is possible to progressively get closer physically and psychologically, talk about something that lowers the levels of aggressiveness, try to contact the person and lead them to a situation in which they lower their levels of aggressiveness, always aware of how they react and protect you.
It depends on the situation, you could tell the person that you can notice their discomfort, how you can help them.
Be assertive
Agree to reasonable requests
What makes a person aggressive?
There are two specific models that seek to give more specific explanations for this behavior.
The coercive model that is based on the fact that aggressive behavior is beneficial for the objectives of those who put it into practice, since they get what they want with this behavior so that the behavior is reinforced and increased.
And the escalation of abuse, in which an individual emits violent behavior that receives another violent behavior as a response that increases the magnitude of their abuse, producing violent feedback.
Personality aspects, although they tend to be stable, have the possibility of changing, so a violent characteristic may not be decisive, they can be identified and corrected by attending psychological therapy sessions.
