AGGRESSIVITY AND ITS SPECIFIC FORMS IN ADOLESCENCE

Abstract

The aggressivity is a very big problem of
our contemporary society. For the adolescents the main
cause of death is violence and not cancer or heart
diseases. We consider aggression as being any conduct
intentionally directed towards objects, people or by it,
to produce some damages, of injuries, destruction and
prejudice. The paper presents the results of a research
made on 39 subjects to establishthe link between verbal
aggression, physical aggression, anger and hostility; the
link between aggression and the specific forms of
aggression and the subjects’ gender; the degree of
association between self-esteem and aggression among
students. The results of this study should be seen as a
warning. Aggressiveness, whatever form it may take, is
present to the high school adolescents.It must be find
solutions; it must be identified factors that are
responsible for the emergence of maladaptive
manifestations.