DIMENSIONS OF AGGRESSION BEHAVIOUR AND RELATED DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Nowadays one of the most debated subject by the social scientists is anger and its further dimension aggression; because the intensity of the aggression emotion changes from person to person. There might be lots of reasons that determine individuals’ aggressive behaviors and aggression behaviors can be projected in different ways depending on age. When developmental periods are considered the behaviors that cause aggression in childhood, adolescence, adulthood or old age periods differentiate. The environment in which individuals survive affects their emotional and behavioral development especially socio economic environment might cause aggression tendencies. This research in which aggression behaviors of high school students and university students were observed according to several variables was carried on by survey method. The scope of the research was constituted of 2242 students who were students in Konya high schools and students in Selçuk University in 2008-2009 educational semester (1294 high school (57,7%), 948 university (42,3%)). In order to gain research data “Aggression Questionnaire” and “Personal Information Form” were used. Research’s data determined that the aggression behaviors of high school students and university students differentiated according to aggression behavior subdimensions. On the other hand aggression behavior differentiated according to their gender. Recommendations were discussed according to findings of the research.