HOSTILITY OF ADOLESCENTS IN RELATION TO FAMILY ENVIRONMENT AND DEMOGRAPHICS (original) (raw)

Family Socialisation Styles and Hostility in the Adolescent Population

Sustainability, 2018

The affective involvement of parents in the socialization of their children is fundamental for the proper psychological and emotional adjustment of adolescents, although we know that it is difficult to study. In this research, the relationship between parenting style and hostility was analysed in Spanish adolescents. Five-hundred and thirty-six adolescents participated in this study (53.7% males and 46.3% females), between the ages of 12 and 18 (M = 15.76, SD = 1.43), enrolled in 4 compulsory Secondary Education centers of the Castellon province. Family socialization was evaluated through the parental styles: authoritative, indulgent, authoritarian and negligent, and hostility, through the Cook–Medley Hostility Scale Criteria assessment. A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was carried out with multiple regression analysis. The results showed that hostility and compound hostility are higher in adolescents from authoritarian and authoritative families than in adolescents from...

Ethnic and genetic factors associated with hostility of adolescents and young adults

E3S Web of Conferences, 2020

The Last decades have witnessed elevated tension and conflicts in young people’s environment. There has been an increase in crime, terrorism, suicides, addictions, and other behavioral deviations among the young. Up to the 21st century, hostility was equated with aggression in its broad, non-differentiated sense. Today hostility is considered to be an inflexible and complex personality trait. Recent studies show that several genes can be viewed as genetic predictors of aggressiveness and hostility (Rodríguez-Ramos Á., Et al., 2019; Tkachenko O.N., 2016). The paper investigates the relationship between genotype and ethnicity as predisposing factors in manifesting hostile behavior. The study involved 320 participants - adolescents and young men of different ethnicity (Russians, Armenians, Dagestanis, Kabardians), aged from 12 to 19. Research methods: Buss-Durkee Hostility inventory (in the adaptation of Osnitsky A.K., 1998); isolation genomic DNA from buccal epithelial cells. Genotype...

A Study of Hostility in relation to certain motives and value pattern

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among hostility motivation and value pattern in a sample of N-200 studying in senior secondary school selected from Bhiwani district of Haryana state. For the collection of necessary information investigator used Buss Durkee Hostility Scale, Allport Vernon lindzey Study of Values Scale by Kulshrestha & Srivastava (1970) Hindi Version and School Motivation Analysis Test by Amir Singh (1971) Hindi Version. The results showed that measures of hostility are high positively. Value pattern and motivation predicted general low.

Attitude of adolescents towards their parents and community

Asian Journal of Home Science, 2008

Present study was conducted on adolescents for assessment of their attitude in five areas namely in attitude towards parents and teachers, discipline, life and humanity, country and religion in rural areas of Hisar district of Haryana state. Sample consisted of 50 adolescents. Results revealed that majority of respondents had favourable attitude towards parents and teachers, discipline, life and humanity and unfavourable attitude towards country and religion. A correlation study showed that attitude of adolescents towards parents and teachers and attitude towards country was positively and significantly correlated with attitude of adolescents towards religion and attitude towards life and humanity was positively and significantly correlated with attitude towards country and religion.

AGGRESSION AMONG ADOLESCENTS: A STUDY

The present study intends to find out the attitude of senior secondary school students towards aggression. The study explores the effect of various demographic variables (gender, religion, place of living, educational qualification of father and educational qualification mother, occupation of father and occupation of mother, and economic status) on aggression among senior secondary school students. The study has been conducted on the sample of 311 senior secondary students of India (U.P Aligarh). The questionnaire prepared and standardized by the investigators has been used for the purpose. The data has been analyzed at two levels: first, measures of central tendency have been calculated and second inferential statistics have been applied to find out the significance of the difference. The results indicate that various demographic variables like gender, place of living, economic status have a significant effect on the attitude of the learners towards aggression. However, some demographic variables like religion, educational qualification of father and educational qualification mother, occupation of father and occupation of mother, do not make any difference in the attitude of learners towards aggression.

Role of Parental Attitude in Development of Aggressive Behavior among Adolescents

International Journal of Indian Psychology, 2015

Purpose of the present investigation was to study the role of parental attitude in development of aggressive behavior among adolescents. The sample comprised of 200 (100 male and 100 female) undergraduate students of Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh. Parent-Child Relation Questionnaire (PCRQ) (Singh, 1984) was used for measuring parental attitude and Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992) was used for measuring adolescents aggression. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation and t-test were used for analyzing the data. Result revealed that there was significant negative correlation between positive parental attitude and aggression. It was also found that there was significant positive correlation between negative parental attitude and aggression. When gender differences was conducted on same sample, it was found that in father‟s attitude, female students scored significantly higher on only one positive dimension of father‟s attitude i.e. disciplining out of three positive dimensio...

IJMRA-RSS2024

This study was undertaken to find out the influence of demographic variables and family environment on hostility of adolescents. The study was carried out among college students of the age group of 17-20. Family Environment Scale and Multiphasic Hostility Inventory were administered to the participants. The collected data were statistically analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation and ANOVA. The analysis revealed that there is significant positive correlation among the dimensions of hostility. The results also revealed that there exists significant negative correlation between family environment and hostility. The ANOVA results of demographic variable revealed that birth order, education level and locality have significant influence on the components of hostility. But the religion was found to have significant influence on hostility component acting out and guilt. Family environment and selected demographic were found to be significantly influencing the hostility of adolescents. The study concluded that demographic variables with family environment play a crucial role in the hostility of adolescents.

A Study of Parental Acceptance - Rejection and Aggression towards Parents of Adolescence

Universal Journal of Psychology, 2015

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether there is any significant relation between parental acceptance-rejection and aggression towards parents of adolescence. For this purpose 960 students were selected randomly from various institution of Dhaka city. Among of them 934 students respond for investigation and used following questionnaire-a. Adult PARQ: Father & Mother Version of Rohner[11], B. Aggression Towards Parents of Dolan[5]. In this study it is found that, the significant positive correlation between aggression towards parents and sub parts of parental acceptance-rejection(Father warmth /affection, neglect/indifference, rejection/undifference, Mother warmth/affection, Mother control and Mother total) and there is no significant difference between male and female according to aggression towards parents. This result implies that, there is an effect on parent child interaction.