Childhood Violence Exposure, Antisocial Traits, and Aggression in Adolescents and Young Adults

Code and data to recreate analyses in Kasparek et al., Cycles of violence: Associations between childhood violence exposure, antisocial traits, and aggressive behavior. This study investigated whether childhood violence exposure is associated with antisocial traits and aggressive behavior across two studies spanning adolescence and young adulthood. 78 adolescents (ages 13–18) in Study 1 and 455 young adults (18-25) in Study 2 completed validated measures of violence exposure, transdiagnostic psychopathology, and aggressive behavior in an ecologically-valid aggression paradigm. Analyses focused on how exposure to interpersonal and early-life violence predicted both trait-level antisocial features and behaviorally assessed aggression.