Assess the aggression among school children: a descriptive study

Background: Aggressive and violent behavior usually exhibited by verbal aggression and physical violence towards others. Causes of aggressive behavior may vary from person to person. As per different individuals different way of perception anger arises. People having aggressive behavior may not be aware about their physical injury, threat towards self. There are certain stressors are their which develops aggression like external and internal stressors that are failure at academic or work place, fear of physical illness , perceived loss of loved one or loss of significant relationship, physical attack and criticism from others. Methods: A descriptive survey design was used with certain Objectives: 1.To evaluate the level of aggressive behavior among high school children 2.To find out the association of aggressive behavior with selected socio-demographic variables. Purposive sampling technique was used for selecting the sample. Total 150 numbers of samples (School going children 12-16 years ) were taken from KV schools of Bhubaneswar, Khurdha. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. Results: Study result depicted that among all four categories of aggression, majority children were having hostility behavior and maximum number of the children were having verbal aggression. There were significant association found between socio-demographic variables (occupation of father, type of family and Number of children in the family) with the level of aggression among school going children. Conclusion: various education programs and trends also can be used to assess the children’s aggressive behavior to empower their mental health. Through innovative programs that aggressive behavior and associated factors can be minimized.