Aggressive Behaviour Of Secondary School Adolescents In Relation To Their Demographic Variables

Abstract

Adolescents of today are likely to confront with the changed value pattern, social structure, and mass production, automation and great conflicts in values, religion and family. Various needs, problems and responsibilities along with the various changes in every dimension of personality of the adolescents are leading to emotional instability, anxiety, depression, frustration and one of them increasing with rapid rate is aggression. They are going through complexities of personality disorders and their aggressive attitude resulting them into disasters. Aggression among adolescent school students is an issue of concern among stakeholders in education essentially because a school is an institution designed for teaching and learning. Unarguably, teaching and learning can only successfully take place in a conducive environment devoid of intimidation, harassment, insecurity and fear. Today, not only in schools but also everywhere in the present society, the tendency of aggressive behavior has become a major concern. It is due to unhealthy experiences, unhealthy family environment, higher aspirations, competitions, inadequate knowledge, and zeal to march ahead in an advanced modern & technological society. In fact, not only the adolescents but also the entire world seems to be under the strain of aggressive acts in various forms like robbery, kidnapping, rape, murder etc .The investigator has selected sample of 100 adolescents from different 10 Secondary schools situated in Pathankot district of Punjab state. In order to assess the Aggression among Adolescent students in relation to their demographic variables, a standardized tool “Aggression Scale (A-Scale) constructed and standardized by Km. Roma Pal & Mrs. Tasneem Naqvi (2000) was used. Mean and Standard Deviation as statistical techniques were calculated to determine the mean of aggression scores of different groups and ‘t’-test was applied to determine significance of difference between mean of aggression scores of different groups. After having analyzed and interpreted data, the investigator found that 28% adolescent students have saturated level of aggression, 32% adolescent students have high level of aggression, 33% adolescent students have average level of aggression and only 7 % adolescent students have low level of aggression. No adolescent lies in the category of clean. No significant difference in the aggression of male and female adolescent students was found.  Also no difference in the aggression of adolescent students from nuclear and joint families was found.