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CAUSES AND MANIFESTATION OF AGGRESSION WIHT ADOLESCENTS

ANA STEFANOVIĆ
thinks that they can somehow effect on this problem and
INTRODUCTION that situation can be changed.
One of the hypotheses was that girls are more exposed to
Aggression is tendency to hurt, do the damage, destroy psychological abuse than boys, while boys are more often
person or object. It can be considered as reaction on victims and physical abusers. Significant percentage of
frustration or as sort of instinct. Most of the psychologists respondents, as an answer to question ‘’Who is more often
represent the thought that aggression does not have to come victim and who is the aggressor?’’ said that they associate
from innate motive, but it can be acquired after surviving psychological abuse with girls and physical with boys.
some kind of frustration, or other influences. Independent Results confirm that students are well aware of the problem
motive of aggression does not have to be connected to and they notice aggression in their environment, however,
threatening our freedom, wishes, rights or other kind of as we can see from responses to other questions, they think
failure. That motive is the wish itself to hurt someone or that it is not exactly their problem so they can not have
destroy something, without personal explanation or reason, more significant influence on it.
and not in case of self defense. Of course, level and way of
manifestation are note innate, despite the fact that
aggression itself can be innate, environment in which we CONCLUSION
live and grow up as well as our habits influence much on
increase and prevention of violent behavior. Based on the results gathered by questioning high school
and elementary school students we conclude that two out of
tree hypotheses can be proven. One of them is that students
METHOD OF OPERATION of elementary school are more exposed to aggression, they
are more often victims and abusers, while that is not the
Research was conducted between 10.2. and 26.2.2015. on case in high school. That hypothesis is based on the fact
regular classes in two schools, in form of questionnaire that younger students spend more time in playing computer
which included 24 questions related to aggression among games and that makes them more violent. It is supported
young people. Respondents were students of third year of because high school students say that they spend less time
Third Belgrade gymnasium, one class of science on computer. Second hypothesis is about gender of
department and one class of social studies department, as respondents and does it influence to the level of aggression
well as two classes of seventh grade elementary school among students. According to answers given in
‘’Laza Kostić’’. Number of questioned students was 60 questionnaire, male students are more prone to physical
from high school and 45 students from elementary school, violence, while female students are more exposed to
in total 105 respondents who were supposed to answer psychological abuse. That means that this assumption is
honestly on questions mostly in form of evaluation scale, also supported by the facts. Last assumption was that
with given answers. students with lower school achievement are more violent,
but since respondents taken for this questionnaire were not
adequate for these criteria to be taken into consideration,
RESULTS this assumption is rejected at the beginning. Most of the

students had excellent or very good grades, so we could not
Results show that much more students of elementary school make difference between level of their school achievement
play computer games and they spend more time on and violence.
computer than high school students. However, as they say
violence is almost equally spread in both groups and the
highest percentage of students has witnessed some kind of LITERATURE
violence. What is disturbing is the fact that such young
people are exposed to aggression so often. They are often [1] Nikola Rot, Slavoljub Radonjić; Psihologija za drugi
abusers and many of them do not regret it at all, as they razred gimnazije, Beograd (2008), Zavod za udžbenike i
answer in the questionnaire. More than a half of high school nastavna sredstva
students think that violence is huge problem in their [2] Nikola Rot; Osnovi socijalne psihologije, Beograd
society, but more students of elementary school thinks that (2003), Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva
way, and there is only a few of them who do not see this as
a problem. Defeating is only that small number of students