Aggression and Resilience Among Adolescents

Aggression is the intentional harming of another characterized by verbal or physical attack. It may be driven by emotional arousal or it may be instrumental to secure a goal action intended to harm someone. Aggression is any behavior directed towards any object or person with the intent to cause harm or injury directly or indirectly - physically, verbally, psychologically or socially. Physically, it would refer to acts like kicking, hitting, etc.; verbally, it would refer to verbal attack, sarcastic remarks, shouting, etc; psychologically, it would include distrust, cynicism, etc.; and socially, it would involve giving public statements, tampering a person's image, defaming a person, etc. (Baron & Richardson, 1994; Trama & Saini, 2005b). The present attempts to study different forms of aggression i.e. anger, hostility, physical and verbal aggression in relation to resilience among adolescents.