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ow amined the possible impact of these behaviours on each other over time and very little is known about the devel-that the two constructs co-vary at any moment in time. When Wispe (1972) first introduced the term ‘prosocial Obsuth et al. BMC Psychology (2015) 3:16 DOI 10.1186/s40359-015-0073-4have established that aggressive versus prosocial behaviourCB3 9DA, UK Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleopmental processes which may facilitate the link be-tween them. The present study sets out to fill these important research gaps. Aggressive behaviour has been defined as any behaviour directed towards another person that is carried out with the proximate intent to cause physical or psychological behaviour ’ over four decades ago, she defined it as the opposite of ‘antisocial behaviour’, including aggressive be