STUDENTS’ AGGRESSIVENESS AND ITS CONNECTION
WITH INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT IN YOUTH
Larisa V. Lezhnina1*, Irina A. Kurapova2
1Prof. Dr., Mari State University, RUSSIA, flouers@mail.ru
2Assoc. Prof., Mari State University, RUSSIA, kurapova.psy@mail.ru
*Corresponding Author
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of the actual problem of the growth of students’ aggressiveness in various forms of manifestations in schools and colleges. The subject of the research is the relationship of students’ aggressiveness and the level of intellectual development in youth. The purpose of the research is an empirical study of forms of aggressive behavior in youth and verification of its relationship with the level of intellectual development of students in professional colleges.
The theoretical basis of the study is classical approaches to the understanding of aggressiveness and hostility as personality traits, manifested in destructive subjective-objective relationships or as a secretive-verbal reaction of negative feelings and assessments. A sample of the empirical study was college students: 94 boys and girls aged 15-17. The method of organizing the investigation is an ascertaining experiment. The empirical data collection was carried out using the method of “Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory” (by A.H. Buss and A. Durkee) and “Short-form selection test” (by E.F. Wonderlic, adapted by V.N. Buzin).
The results obtained allowed us to identify the main forms of students’ aggressiveness in youth, the levels of hostility and aggressiveness, as well as the general level of intellectual development of college students. An inverse correlation was established between the integral indicator of their mental development and physical aggression.
Keywords: : Aggressiveness, college students, youth, hostility, intellectual development.
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