Influenţa genului şi a statutului profesional asupra relaţiilor dintre agresivitate şi comportamentul civilizat
The Influence of Gender and Professional Status on the Relationships between Aggression and Civilised Behaviour

Summary/Abstract: Our study intended to test the following hypothesis: the relationships between civilised behaviour and the dimensions of aggression vary according to the individuals’ gender and professional status and the environment. We used four samples. The first two samples consisted of individuals who attended some type of educational program (elementary school, high school, or college) and were not employed (18 boys and 22 girls), while the other two samples consisted of individuals who were employed and did not attend any type of educational program (35 men and 62 women). All participants answered the CC and A questionnaires. The CC questionnaire contains eight items and determines, through self-assessment, the degree to which the respondent follows the rules of civilised behaviour in various environments: at school, at work, within the family, within the circle of friends, on the street, on public transport, while going out and while shopping. The A questionnaire contains six scales, which assess dimensions of aggression: Hostility, Physical self-aggression, Physical aggression towards others, Verbal self-aggression, Verbal aggression towards others, and Anger. We found that the size and the sign of the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients computed between the scales of the A questionnaire and the items of the CC questionnaire depend on the individuals’ gender and professional status: there are cases in which the correlation coefficient between a scale of the A questionnaire and an item in the CC questionnaire is significant (at threshold p=0.05) for two or more categories of individuals, but the sign is different. Consequently, the formulated hypothesis was confirmed.

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