People with tattoos are more likely to be rebellious and angry

People with tattoos have been found to be more aggressive and rebellious than those without, researchers have found.

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.One explanation is that people who have higher reactive rebelliousness may respond to disappointing and frustrating events by getting tattooed