Social Networking, 2017, 6, 135-147 http://www.scirp.org/journal/sn ISSN Online: 2169-3323 ISSN Print: 2169-3285 DOI: 10.4236/sn.2017.62008 April 26, 2017 Typology of Motivation and Aggression on the Basis of Social Network Variables: Examples of Complementary and Nested Behavioral Types through Conventional Statistics Alexandra Bekiari, Zoi Anna Nikolaidou, Nikolaos Hasanagas Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece Abstract Goal of this research is to suggest a typology of verbal aggressiveness, argu- mentativeness and motivational climate influence, pointing out examples of complementary types (namely containing no identical components) and nested types (containing identical components). Complete network analysis was conducted in a student class at the Dept. of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Thessaly (N = 66). Standardized questionnaires were used. Network analysis and Principal Component Analysis were implemented using Visone software and SPSS, respectively. Main results were: in the typol- ogy of targeting, parameters of motivation climate, verbal aggressiveness and argumentativeness were combined in several types (“affable ambitious”, “iso- lated victim”, “isolated ambitious”, “lightly victimized” and “severely victi- mized”) which were partially complementary and partially nested into each other. These depict student profiles vary from quite socialized and invulnera- ble to only isolated and victimized. They also reveal the significance of seeking knowledge acquirement vs. performance. The typology of general involve- ment (in- and out-degree) contains types tending to be rather nested into each other than complementary which varies from quite integrative to purely de- constructive appearance. This typology depicts the connection of motivation climate (and the subsequently induced familiarity) with verbal aggressiveness without diminishing susceptibility to argumentation. The fact that the typol- ogy of targeting is composed of several complementary types while in the ty- pology of general involvement mainly of nested ones, can be attributed to the structural clarity of the former ones (a typology focusing only on targeting is structurally clearer than a typology of general involvement). Keywords Verbal Aggressiveness, Argumentativeness, Motivation, Complementary and How to cite this paper: Bekiari, A., Niko- laidou, Z.A. and Hasanagas, N. (2017) Typology of Motivation and Aggression on the Basis of Social Network Variables: Ex- amples of Complementary and Nested Behavioral Types through Conventional Statistics. Social Networking, 6, 135-147. https://doi.org/10.4236/sn.2017.62008 Received: March 11, 2017 Accepted: April 23, 2017 Published: April 26, 2017 Copyright © 2017 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access