Aggressive behavior has many bad effects on people's health care and lifestyle and any attempt to find the main issues influencing aggressive behavior among young students could help setup appropriate programs to control and possibly reduce aggressive attitudes. The proposed study of this paper performs an empirical study to find out the relationship between aggressive behavior and other important factors such as gender, age, etc. The survey uses a well-known questionnaire introduced by Buss and Perry (The aggression questionnaire, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 452-459, 1992). The survey distributes 500 questionnaire consists of different questions based on Likert scale among 250 female and 250 male students. The questionnaire consists of various questions including anger, physical aggression, verbal aggression and hostility. The results indicate that while there is no meaningful difference between aggression attitudes of female and male students (with p-value<0.001), the aggressive attitudes increases among older male students but this aggressive reduces among female students as they get older.
DOI: j.msl.2011.09.007 Keywords: Aggressive behavior ,Social work study ,Gender and aggressive behavior ,Age and aggressive behavior How to cite this paper: Iravani, M. (2012). A social work study on aggressive behavior among Iranian students.Management Science Letters, 2(1), 181-188.
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