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AGGRESSION AMONG ADOLESCENTS: A STUDY
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Indian Journal of Youth & Adolescent Health, 2020
Background: Increasing aggression and violent behaviors in adolescents present serious challenges for public health. Children with persistent high levels of aggressiveness are often associated with developing conduct disorders later in life. Objectives: (1) To identify aggression among school adolescents. (2). To find out the association of aggression with different socio-demographic characteristics among these students. Methods: It was a school based cross sectional study conducted in one of the private schools in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Study population comprised of 319 adolescents studying in classes 9 th-12 th. A pre-tested, semi-structured, self-administered questionnaire was distributed to the study subjects. For assessing aggression, a modified version of Direct and Indirect Aggression Scale (DIAS) was used. Data was analyzed by using frequency tables and significant association was established by chi-square test. Result: A large proportion of adolescents scored high on each item of aggression scale. Males adolescents displayed significantly higher levels of aggressiveness as compared to female. Younger age showed higher level of aggressive scores than older age groups. Adolescents who were Hindus and had nuclear families with educated parents were found to have high aggressive scores as compared to other religion and joint families. However, these differences were not statistically significant. Conclusions: There is high aggression level among school adolescents which needs effective preventive and management strategy.
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Aggression among adolescents – A cross-sectional study
Adesh University Journal of Medical Sciences & Research, 2019
Adolescence is a transitional phase of growth and development between childhood and adulthood. It is the age group between 10 and 19 years and is the time to develop knowledge and skills, to learn to manage emotions and acquire attributes and abilities that will be important for enjoying the adolescent years and adult roles. There are about 1.2 billion adolescents in the world, around 243 million of them live in India-contributing to one-fourth of the total population in India. [1,2] Aggression has been defined as a behavior whose primary or sole purpose or function is to injure another person or organism, whether physically or psychologically. [3] Aggression can be expressed directly (physical aggression) or indirectly (spreading rumors or psychological insult). [4] With the changing era of time and modernization of society, there is a considerable increase in the incidents of aggression/violence among youth and adolescents, which are more commonly seen in boys as compared to girls; as this phase of life is the most important part for the development of the personality. However, our young generation is wasting their golden period in the aggressive activities, violence, and getting involved into the crimes. Moreover, the aggression and irritation of this age are overlooked and never given adequate attention, leaving
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I would like to thank the following people: Prof C van Eeden for all her guidance, mentorship, support, motivation and the statistical analysis of the results. My husband, mother, family and friends who continued to support, motivate and pray for me throughout this study. Me M Esterhuizen of the NWU library for her assistance in gathering articles for the study. Me L Scott for the language and technical editing. Mr BJ Venter for assistance with the translation of the summary. The principals and learners of the secondary schools who participated in this study. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!
A Study to Assess the Predictors of Aggression Among School Going Children
International journal of current research and review, 2021
Background: Aggression could be a product of our interactions with individuals in our environment which, its severity greatly differs across countries and cultures. In the recent era of childhood, aggression is the big health dilemma across the world. Aggression is a behaviour to hurt the living creatures that try to avoid the damage. Objective: To assess the predictors of aggression among school-going children. To associate with the predictors of aggression among school-going children with the demographic variables. Methods: A descriptive research design with non-probability convenience sampling was used. The population was 250 school going children of 5th, 6th, and 7tt in the Wardha district of Maharashtra, India. Result: In this study, the findings show that majority of sample 93(37.2%) were from age of 12years and 82(32.8%) of subject age of 11years and 75(30%) subject from age of 13years. according to their residence show that average no. of sample i.e. 183 (73.2%) were residing in an urban area. according to their Father's Education show that 71 (28.4%) of the subject were from Primary Education. according to their Occupation of father show that 106 (42.4%) of the subject were Farmer, overall income is between Rs 3000-5000/month i.e. 48% birth Order of the subjects show that 124 (49.6%) of the subject were from 1st, 109 (100%) of the subject were from Nuclear family and according to their Source of Emotional support show that 163 (65.2%) of the subject were from Mother. Conclusion: It was concluded from our study that the predictors are over protectiveness, mass media, alcoholic father, temperament, mobile addiction. We found that there was no association between selected demographic variables like age, education, residence, religion, mother's education, father's education, occupation of mother, occupation of father, the income of the family, birth order, type of family, and source of emotional support with predictors of aggression.
Sex Differences and Similarities in Risk Factors of Physical Aggression in Adolescence
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Adolescence, is a period of life that is knowing and studying by many researchers for many years, has always been and remain the subject for many sciences. The adolescence is recognized as one of the most rapid moments of life, full of strong emotions and it is considered as the process of individuals maturing regard to the individual development. In this period of life teenagers will be accompany of the main phenomena as Aggressive and Antisocial behavior, that moment is a disturbing phenomena that is shacked and troubled Albanian family and society, which can appear in the form of verbal or physical. The object of my research is based on literature review of the adolescent aggression and antisocial behavior during development , including theoretical and empirical data in the Albanian society. During valuation is important to identify the functions and forms of aggression and Antisocial Behavior. At the time of dictatorship was talk very little about adolescence, about their desire...
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