An Investigation of Aggression Levels of 9th Grade Students Studying at General High Schools with Regard to Some Variables and Continuous Anxiety Levels

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The purpose of the present study is to determine aggression levels of the students according to such variables as continuous anxiety, parents’ responses to unacceptable behaviors of the students, frequency of parents’ following students’ school experiences and frequency of students’ participation in socio-cultural activities. To this end, the researchers administered the scales to 479 students studying at 9th grade of general high schools in the 2010-2011 education year. Descriptive method was used in the research. Data were collected using ‘Aggression Questionnaire’ developed by Buss and Perry and adapted in Turkish culture by Can (2002), and using ‘Continuous Anxiety Scale’ of the ‘The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory’ which was developed by Spilberger, Gorsuch and Laushene and translated into Turkish by Öner and Le Compte (1985).Findings of the research indicated a positive and significant association between aggression and continuous anxiety levels of the students at moderate level. Aggression levels of male students significantly differed from the female students’ and were higher. A statistically significant difference was found between parents’ responses to unacceptable behaviors of the students, frequency of their following students’ school experiences and students’ level of aggression. Aggression levels of the students whose parents sought to solve the problems with their unacceptable behaviors by speaking to their children were lower than those whose parents punished and fought them to solve the said behavioral problems. In addition, findings revealed that the more parents communicated with the teachers in order to follow their children’s school experiences and the students participated in sociocultural activities, the less their levels of aggression were. Implications based on the findings of the current study are discussed.

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Level of aggression , level of continuous anxiety , 9th grade high school students

Gaziantep University Journal Of Social Sciences

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Gaziantep University Journal Of Social Sciences