Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Loneliness With Aggressive Behavior of Adolescents in Perak, Malaysia

Izzah Atira Jamaludin,Hilwa Abdullah @ Mohd Nor

doi:10.6007/ijarped/v10-i1/9621

Abstract

Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Loneliness With Aggressive Behavior of Adolescents in Perak, Malaysia

Highlights

Adolescence is a transition period from the late childhood into adulthood (Dixon, Scheidegger, & Mcwhirter, 2009) which characterized by developmental changes in the pubertal, physical, cognitive, emotional, psychosocial and educational (Erikson, 1963)
As for the variables self-esteem by using the self-esteem scale test found the M = 27.60, SD = 4.17 and loneliness variables by using the test R-UCLA Loneliness Scale is M = 42.25, SD = 8.97
Overall self-esteem and loneliness are linked with aggressive behavior

Summary

Introduction

Adolescence is a transition period from the late childhood into adulthood (Dixon, Scheidegger, & Mcwhirter, 2009) which characterized by developmental changes in the pubertal, physical, cognitive, emotional, psychosocial and educational (Erikson, 1963). Adolescence is a demanding period in life cycle of a young person which may lead to aggressive behavior. The contributory factors that leads to aggressive behavior are many and varied such as stress, loneliness, and selfesteem. Several risk factors has been identified as potential antecedents for the development of aggressive behavior in adolescents. The individual will face a critical challenge of formation and development of self-identity. When the adolescent development of self-identity is negative, they will tend to lose confidence in themselves. Barry, Frick and Killian (2003) has identified that low self-esteem relationship and behavioral problems can be noticed among teenagers. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between self-esteem and loneliness level of aggressive behavior in adolescents, to identify the association between the dimensions of aggressive behaviour with self esteem and loneliness, to identify the Gender differences in dimensions of aggressive behavior and to explore whether the level of loneliness influence aggresive behavior in adolescents

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