The Effect of Family Relationship and Gender on the Aggression Level of Adolescents

Adolescence from Latin adolescence meaning “to grow up” is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development generally occurring between puberty and legal adulthood (age of majority), but largely characterized as beginning and ending with the teenage stage. For the adolescent, this period is a dramatic challenge, one requiring adjustment to changes in the self, in the family, and in the peer group. Social psychologists define aggression as international harm doing, they realized that determining whether some action that caused harm to other was intentional or unintentional is a difficult task. Thus, aggression means the behavoiur directed towards the goal of harming another living being, who is motivated to avoide such treatments. Family relationship provides education for the experience of love and it also revels the ultimate measuring of love as the connecting medium between the temporal and the eternal realms. The core of the needed inner transformation lies in a new vision of the positive family relationship which helps adolescents in handling their aggressive behaviour. The present research aims to study the effect of family relationship and gender on the aggression level of adolescents. The sample size was 100 schools students of class 9th to 12th – 50 boys and 50 girls. It was hypothesized that there would be a significant difference between family relationship and gender on the aggression level of adolescents. Also, it was hypothesized that parental acceptance will lead to a lower aggression level among male and female adolescents whereas parental concentration will lead to a lower aggression level among male and female adolescents. It was also hypothesized that parental avoidance will not show a significant difference in the aggression level of male adolescents whereas parental avoidance will show a significant difference in the aggression level of female adolescents.