Abstract
Changes in Level of Aggression can affect ones Emotional Competence and its dimensions. College students who are Day Scholars (living at home) and Boarders (living in hostels, PGs, Rented Flats) may have different types of stressors and issues which in turn may affect ones level of aggression. The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between level of aggression and emotional competence among day scholars and boarders. The dimensions of emotional competence include Adequate Depth of Feeling (ADF), Adequate Expression and Control of Emotions (AECE), Ability to Function with Emotions (AFE), Ability to Cope with Problem Emotions (ACPE), Enhancement of Positive Emotions (EPE). The sample consists of 120 college students of Delhi/NCR (60 day scholars and 60 boarders) which were selected using purposive sampling technique. For the purpose of data collection, questionnaire of Aggression Scale by Dr. G.P. Mathur and Dr. Rajkumari Bhatnagar and Emotional Competence Scale by Dr. Harish Sharma and Dr. Rajiv Lochan Bhardwaj were used. The quantitative analysis was done by the help of Pearsons Product Moment Correlation. The findings revealed significant negative correlation between level of aggression and emotional competence.
Highlights
The aim of the study was to find the correlation of involvement with friends and emotional competence
Maggio et al (2016) aimed at including a course on emotions for pre-school students to test if it had any effect on their social-emotional competence
It was found that the group which was taught about emotions shows higher knowledge about emotions and could practice emotional regulation better than the other group
Summary
College students who are Day Scholars (living at home) and Boarders (living in hostels, PGs, Rented Flats) may have different types of stressors and issues which in turn may affect one‘s. Aggression: Aggression can be primarily understood as an act of harming another individual with purpose and intention to cause discomfort and pain. Aggression is a behaviour, which could possibly lead a person to harm others physically or mentally. Definition of Aggression: According to Dollard et al, aggression can be understood as ―a behaviour whose goal is the injury of the person towards whom it is directed.‖ It can be active or passive, direct or indirect, physical, or verbal. Social psychologists have come up with a description of aggression which explains, aggression is the behaviour of deliberately harming another individual who does not desire that pain and suffering which is being caused upon
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