OBLICI I UČESTALOST AGRESIVNOG PONAŠANJA U ŠKOLI
FORMS AND FREQUENCY OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR IN SCHOOLS

Summary/Abstract: One of quite serious problems in our society is the aggressiveness of young people. There are more and more victims of violent behavior. The headlines in the media are more and more alarming. The paper shows some results of how the high-school youth express their aggressiveness. The research has been conducted on a sample of 740 examinees from the high schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although the overall results have shown more direct manifest aggressiveness in boys compared to girls, there are some differences found in the forms of expressing that aggressiveness. Aggressiveness is defined as a set of behavior forms which include the intention to hurt other person either physically or mentally, meaning even some serious cases such as rape, robbery and murder. This paper has examined the manifest aggressiveness through the examinees` self expression on the intensity of their reactions in different situations. The research results have shown that there is a statistically significant difference in the manifest aggressiveness of boys and girls i.e. there is an obvious difference in those behavior forms measured by our scale. Therefore, it may be concluded that the variable of gender is an important variable, where, in average, the boys express more manifest aggressiveness than the girls.

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