Why a tattoo means you’re more likely to be aggressive?

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Once only associated with convicts and biker gangs, they are now called ‘body art’ — and even the Prime Minister’s wife has one.

But people with tattoos are actually more aggressive and rebellious than those without, researchers have found.
The research has been seen as surprising as it had been thought that as tattoos had become more mainstream — with a parlour seemingly on every high street these days — there would be little difference between the inked or un-inked.

Professor Viren Swami of Anglia Ruskin University studied 378 adults, 181 women and 197 men aged between 20 and 58.
Of these 97 — one in four — had tattoos.

Those with tattoos were found to have ‘significantly higher’ levels of verbal aggression, anger, and were more rebellious compared with people without tattoos.
The more tattoos a person had, the more angry they were, the survey found.

The research found that tattoos had become ‘mainstream’ — with ‘no significant difference’ in the social and educational background between those who with and without tattoos, and men and women were equally likely to be adorned with body art.

The tattooed people — members of the general public questioned in high streets, underground stations and parks in London — were more likely to be rebellious in a ‘reactive’ way.

Someone who showed ‘reactive rebelliousness’ would answer they would ‘get angry and argue back’ if someone in authority shouted at them.

By nordika-tattoo.kiev.ua.
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