Agressive behaviour at adolescents in context of new societal challenges

Abstract

The article describes the result of an experimental research of aggressive behavior and its correlates at contemporaneous adolescents in context of new societal challenges. Our study included 269 adolescent (143 boys and 126 girls) aged 14 to 19 years old. The Eysenck Self-assessment of mental states test was administrated to the entire experimental group. As a result, it was established that a huge number of contemporaneous adolescents presents a medium and a high level of aggressive behavior, frustration and rigidity. According to gender study no differences between adolescents were registered in aggressive behavior, frustration and rigidity. Also, depending on the age dimension, no differences in aggressive behavior and frustration were reported. The only exception is rigidity which is more pronounced at 18 – 19 years old adolescents. We also determined that adolescents with high level of aggressive behavior, exhibit a high level of frustration, while adolescents with high level of frustration exhibit a high level of rigidity.