Correlation Between Aggression and Loneliness Among Youth
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https://doi.org/10.25215/1103.345Keywords:
Aggression, Loneliness, YouthAbstract
In the literature loneliness and aggression are associated variables. It indicates that lonely individuals are aggressive and show aggression, while that individual who behaves aggressively becomes lonely increasingly. Loneliness is a common experience and Anger is an emotion, while aggression is the reaction. The main objectives of to study relationship between Aggression and Loneliness and to study the level of aggression and loneliness among Youth. This study was conducted on 60 male and female (n = 30 male; n = 30 female) bachelors students of SAGE University, Indore (India, Madhya Pradesh). The tools or tests used for data collection are LONELINESS INVENTORY (LI) By Uma, Meenakshi, R and AGGRESSION SCALE by Dr. R.L. Bharadwaj. The analysis of data was executed through SPSS version 29.0 and the statistics used to test the hypotheses is Karl Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient and descriptive statistics is used. It was found that there is a significant difference of loneliness and aggression among youth but there is no significant difference of loneliness (X̄ Difference = 0.94) and Aggression (X̄ Difference = 3.03.) among male and female, the results also reflected that there is no significant correlation [ρ = 0.184 (negligible)] of aggression and loneliness among youth. The results indicates that the majority of students having very high aggression level and high loneliness level.Metrics
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2022-11-05
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Dr. Deepak Jahagirdar, & Sarthak Patidar. (2022). Correlation Between Aggression and Loneliness Among Youth. International Journal of Indian Psychȯlogy, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.25215/1103.345
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