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Prashant Singh, Archita Gupta, Sushil Kumar Sah, Tarun Mishra,
Trayambak Tiwari
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
Priyanka Tiwari
University of Delhi, New Delhi
The Tri-guna model of personality originated from the Indian philosophy classified human
personality into three gunas that are Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas. Previous researches
have studied the association between personality and aggressive behavior through
various models, but minimal researches have studied the association between tri-guna
personality type and aggressive behavior among young adults. Therefore, the present
study aimed to understand the association between tri-guna personality type and
aggression among young adults. A sample of 103 young adults participated in the
present study. Findings revealed that Sattva was negatively associated with all the
dimensions of aggression, while Rajas and Tamas were positively associated with all
the dimensions of aggression. Moreover, Rajas, and Tamas emerged as significant
predictors of aggression