Anger Dealing Approaches

Abstract

Following quantitative research is conducted to do a correlation study on effect of gender on aggression and suppression in youth The researcher examined youth on the Buss Perry Aggression Questionnaire. It was observed that males showed high aggression compared to females. While females showed high suppression than males. There was seen a positive correlation between the two variables of gender and aggression. The growing cases of youth aggression and violence in the society were the reason of conducting this research. A total of 86 participants were observed out of which 38 were males and 48 females ranging between the ages of 14 to 25 years. It was observed that males had high scores on the aggression scale while females were below average. Adolescent girls showed high anger and physical aggression. Overall anger and aggression in adolescents was more than youth between the ages of 20 to 25. They scored average with high scores on hostility. Females had high verbal aggression and males had high physical aggression. Females that scored high on suppression scored low on verbal aggression and anger but showed high scores on both physical aggression and hostility. The hypothesis of the research was proved. The questions, lack of seriousness and other environmental conditions were the few short comings faced in the process. Few different findings that came forward during the research were that along with gender, person’s family system, family pattern, number of siblings also affects the aggression and suppression. The analysis of the research was done using SPSS.