Self-esteem, academic self-concept, and aggression at school
Aggressive Behavior, Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 130-136, 6 Feb 2007
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114112139/ABSTRACT
Laramie D. Taylor, Pamela Davis-Kean, Oksana Malanchuk
"Results suggest that, in general, students with low self-concept in achievement domains are more likely to aggress at school than those with high self-concept. However, there is a small sample of youth who, when they receive contradictory information that threatens their reported self-concept, do aggress. Global self-esteem was not found to be predictive of aggression. These results are discussed in the context of recent debates on whether self-esteem is a predictor of aggression and the use of a more proximal vs. general self-measure in examining the self-esteem and aggression relation." [Sub required]