In a previous study, reactive criminal thinking or cognitive impulsivity mediated the relationship between parental knowledge and delinquency. This study sought to determine whether cognitive impulsivity also mediated the relationship between parental knowledge and childhood aggression. A path analysis was performed on a sample of 438 early adolescent boys (n = 206) and girls (n = 232) from the Illinois Study of Bullying and Sexual Violence using three waves of non-overlapping data. As predicted, cognitive impulsivity mediated the relationship between parental knowledge and childhood aggression, but cognitive insensitivity did not. The results of this study provide ongoing support for the general conceptual argument that childhood aggression parallels delinquency in certain respects and that parental knowledge deters both future delinquency and childhood aggression by reducing the cognitive impulsivity that is central to the behavioral patterns of delinquency and childhood aggression.

在先前的研究中，反应性犯罪思维或认知冲动介导了父母知识与犯罪之间的关系。这项研究试图确定认知冲动是否还介导了父母知识与儿童侵略之间的关系。对438个青春期早期男孩（n = 206）和女孩（n= 232）来自伊利诺伊州的欺凌和性暴力研究，使用了三波不重叠的数据。如预期的那样，认知冲动介导了父母知识与儿童侵略之间的关系，但认知无敏却没有。这项研究的结果为一般性的概念论点提供了持续的支持，即在某些方面儿童的侵略行为与犯罪行为并存，父母的知识通过减少对犯罪和儿童行为行为模式至关重要的认知冲动，从而阻止了未来的犯罪和儿童侵害行为。