Development of aggression

 Preschoolers who have not successfully developed age-appropriate strategies for regulating aggressive behaviour are at high risk for engaging in chronic aggressive and antisocial behaviour. 

Aggression co-occurs with several common problems in early childhood including impulsivity, emotion dysregulation and language delays.

Exactly how these other problems interact with aggression is still under investigation. Aggression may be worsened by these cooccurring problems in some children.

In other children, deficits in these other areas of functioning may have preceded the difficulties with aggression. Defining atypical aggression during the preschool years has been controversial.

This is in part because of the fear of using labels or concepts that are developmentally inappropriate.

Aggression has been broadly defined in the developmental and abnormal psychology literature, resulting in a set of behaviours that range from typical and adaptive to atypical final adaptive. 

We now know that young children who are manifesting high levels of aggression are at high risk for continued problem behaviour and are in need of services.

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