Considers four issues pertaining to aggression and adaptation: (1) conceptual and operational definitions of aggression; (2) how aggression relates to adjustment difficulties for boys and girls and for children from different ethnic and socioeconomic groups; (3) whether specific forms of aggression relate to truly positive correlates and whether relations depend on the developmental period; and (4) the specific social processes accounting for when aggression is and is not maladaptive. (Author/KB)