Aggressive behavior of secondary school students in relation to their family and school environment

Abstract

The study in hand aimed to study the aggressive behavior of secondary school newlinestudents in relation to their family and school environment . Quantitative descriptive newlineapproach was applied for this study. The population for the study comprises of all the newlinesec. school students of Punjab state. Multistage stratified random sampling technique newlinehas been used to select the secondary school students for investigation. Total 751 newlinestudents of class 9th and 10th class were selected from the schools.To study the newlineaggressive behavior, Aggression Scale by Dr. G.P. Mathur and Dr, Raj Kumar newlineBhatnagar (2012) was applied. To study the family environment, Family newlineEnvironment Scale by Harpreet Bhatia and N.K. Chadha (2010) was used. To study newlinethe school environment, Socio-Emotional School Climate Inventory by Dr. Mrs. newlineRenuka Kumari Sinha and Mrs. Rajni Bhargava (2011) was applied. To study the newlinenature of collected quantitative data, descriptive analysis like mean, median, standard newlinedeviation, skewness and kurtosis were calculated. In order to test the stated newlinehypotheses the parametric statistical techniques were applied. Furthermore, to explore newlinethe association of variables Pearson s coefficient of correlation was applied. To find newlineout the difference and interaction effect of groups three way (2x2x2) and to find out newlinethe core and interaction of levels of family environment and school environment newlinetwo way (3x3) Analysis of Variance was applied, furthermore to investigate newlinedifference between the levels of family environment and school environment , ttest newlinewas applied. In conclusion, majority of the sec. school students show moderate newlineaggressive behavior and the aggressive behavior of sec. school students is inversely newlinerelated to their school environment . The cohesiveness in family environment is also newlineinversely related to the aggressive behavior of students of sec. schools. In contrast, newlinethere is insignificant association of expressiveness in family environment and newline aggressive behavior of sec. school students. Conflict family environment is newlinepositively related to the aggressive behavior of students of secondary schools. newlineSimilarly, the acceptance and care in family environment is associated with newlineaggressive behavior of students of sec. schools. It was concluded that there is no newlinesignificant relationship between active-recreational orientation family environment newlineand aggressive behavior of sec. school students. Same as conflict , Independence , newline control and Organization in family environment is positively correlated with newlineaggressive behavior of sec. school students, also. The researcher concluded that there newlineis no significant difference in aggressive behavior of male and female : rural and newlineurban sec. school students. In contrast, there is considerable difference in aggressive newlinebehavior of govt. and pvt. secondary school students. Gender and residential area newlineshow significant interactive effect on aggressive behavior of sec. school students. newline