AGGRESSION AMONG RURAL ADOLESCENTS: A STUDY

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The corona pandemic era has badly affected our lives, be it socially, psychologically, financially, or emotionally. The prevailing situation of the covid- 19 pandemic has given rise to many psychological problems like stress, frustration, depression, and aggression among people. Frightening incidents of aggression are too common today, in the streets, homes, college /school campuses, offices, almost everywhere in the form of road rage, domestic violence, sexual assault ragging, etc. The daily newspapers are reporting hundreds of incidents of aggression and violence every day. Here an attempt has been made to study the aggression level of rural adolescents studying in government schools and to find out gender differences in aggression. Students studying in VIII class of Government upper Primary Schools situated in the rural area constituted the population of the study. The sample consisted of 100 rural adolescents studying in standard eight. The survey method of descriptive research has been used in the study Aggression scale constructed and standardized by Roma Pal and Tasneem Naqvi (1983) was used to measure aggression. The score varies from 0 to 150 on A-scale (Aggression scale) . The ages of respondents ranged from 14 to 15 years. Percentage analysis was done and the t- ratio was calculated to analyze the data. The result shows that most of the adolescents belong to the average and low aggression category on the aggression scale. No significant difference between male and female students was found in aggression.

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