Adolescence is a period of immense physical, mental and social changes. Aggression is very common feature in this period in the present day world. The present study was an effort to conduct an empirical investigation on aggression in school going adolescents in rural and urban area.
To assess the prevalence of aggression among school going adolescents in rural and urban area To analyse the predisposing causes of aggression among school going adolescents.
It was a community based cross sectional study conducted from October 2014 to January 2015 among adolescents aged between 14 to 19 years in two schools (one from rural and one from urban area) of Jhansi. Direct and Indirect scale (DIAS) was used for data collection and to assess aggression. SPSS version 16.0 was used for the analysis of data.
On the basis of DIAS analysis, the adolescent boys of age group of (17 to 19 years) of rural school scored very high on DIAS scale as compared to boys of similar age group in urban school. Poor economic condition was found to be most common predisposing cause among rural children.
The present study able to give a meaningful explanation and understanding of aggression prevailing among rural and urban school going adolescents in their ecological context. There must be the need of counselling and teachers must play an important role to handle children to counter there aggression.
Adolescence, aggression, rural, urban, DIAS
