A Study to Assess levels of Aggressive and Violent Behavior in High School Adolescents and Potential Roles of Occupational Therapy

Durojaiye Olushola Samson,U Ganapathy Sankar

doi:10.13005/bbra/2713

Durojaiye Olushola Samson, U Ganapathy Sankar

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https://doi.org/10.13005/bbra/2713

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Aggressive behaviour violating the social boundaries can lead to physical or emotional harm to others and violent behaviour can threaten and harm any individual or can destroy property. To assess the effectiveness of multi component cognitive behavioural therapy as a treatment model for aggressive and violent behaviour in high school adolescents. Experimental study was conducted among 13 to 16 years age group adolescents from public and private school in Chennai and Kancheepuram district through non probability sampling technique. Buss & Perry (Aggression Behaviour) baseline survey was used as screening tool as well as outcome measures. One hundred and ninety five (N=195) participants were recruited in the study and divided into control and experimental groups. It revealed that Physical aggression, Verbal aggression, hostility and anger scores were above normal in female and anger and hostility were above normal. Further it revealed that overall aggregate of aggression score was above normal for both male and female. However, intervention using multicomponent behavioural therapy with the selected samples in high school adolescents has found significant („p‟= <0.001*) Hence, multicomponent behavioural therapy intervention is effective for the anger and violent behaviour among the adolescents in high school. Although some variation in demographics persists, engaging in physical and verbal aggression, anger and hostility in high school adolescent has greatly reduced with the use of multicomponent cognitive behavioural therapy. And overall rates of aggressive and violent behaviour in high school adolescent has reduced with significant („p‟= <0.001*).

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Aggressive behaviour violating the social boundaries can lead to physical or emotional harm to others and violent behaviour can threaten and harm any individual or can destroy property
Some variation in demographics persists, engaging in physical and verbal aggression, anger and hostility in high school adolescent has greatly reduced with the use of multicomponent cognitive behavioural therapy
This research shows the percentage of distribution of the student s aggressive and violent behaviors, the mean age of parent and child, ethnical background, parent s marital status, parent s educational status, parents employment status, parent aggression status, students academic performance, students hobby, favorites and role model, parents opinion of anger and type of family

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Aggressive behaviour violating the social boundaries can lead to physical or emotional harm to others and violent behaviour can threaten and harm any individual or can destroy property. One hundred and ninety five (N=195) participants were recruited in the study and divided into control and experimental groups It revealed that Physical aggression, Verbal aggression, hostility and anger scores were above normal in female and anger and hostility were above normal. Some variation in demographics persists, engaging in physical and verbal aggression, anger and hostility in high school adolescent has greatly reduced with the use of multicomponent cognitive behavioural therapy. The weapon carrier has been found to be predominantly dangerious and this behaviour is tracked to male of high school age Different countries have their contextual fact of carrying weapon based on the fact that the variation in weaponry has significant difference based on the country and the report has shown different countries adolescents carry their weapon differently. In Scotland the result of the survey carried out has shown that by age 11 to 16 years 34.1% of males and 8.6% of females has confess that they had carried weapons before in their life time (Farrington et al, 2001)

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