Machiavellians Among Higher Secondary School Students in Relation to Aggression

The purpose of this study was to examine machiavellianism and aggression among higher secondary school students. A sample of 174 higher secondary school students was selected randomly from various government and private schools of Ludhiana districts. The data was collected using hindi version of Mach IV scale by Rai and Gupta (1987) and aggression scale by Mathur and Bhatnagar (2004). The statistical techniques' such as descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way Annova and post-hoc test was used. The result highlighted that there was no significant mean difference in gender but significant mean difference was seen in family structure and streams in relation to Machiavellianism. Further also, there was no significant mean difference found in gender, family structure and streams in aggression but positive and significant correlation was found between Machiavellianism and aggression among higher secondary school students.