Agresija kaip specifinė vaiko elgesio forma: teorinis aspektas
Aggression as a Specific Form of Child’s Behavior: Theoretical Aspect

Summary/Abstract: In a present-day society there are quite many children of specific behavior, whose psychical and social development contravenes the accepted standards. Some children of problematic behavior are attributed to the group of the aggressive (they quickly show temper, are out of self-control, gruff, angry, prone to fight and harm others). Research data of scientists and social pedagogues show social obstinacy of aggressive behavior problem. Aim: to study the concepts of the aggressiveness that are formulated in different ways by scientists, the variety of the classification of aggressive behavior, its reasons and factors. While applying theoretical analysis of scientific sources it turned out that: 1) both, Lithuanian and foreign authors, retain the conception essence of the formulized definitions of aggression, however, the representatives of separate sciences (ethics, pedagogy, psychology) emphasize characteristic aspects for one or another study; 2) aggression manifestations are grouped not on the same basis, i.e. according to the subject, causality, behavior of the individual in conflict situations, order of action display; 3) in non-fiction the most commonly described 4 sources of aggressive behavior are as following: heredity, biological factors, somatic illnesses, influence of a social environment (family, contemporary, means of mass media). A pedagogue can only change a child’s reactions towards the factors of a social environment step by step.

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