In this study, aggression of teenagers which is making an issue these days is divided into overt aggression and relational aggression according to manners of their presentation. This study is designed to find out whether there are contrasts of aggress...
In this study, aggression of teenagers which is making an issue these days is divided into overt aggression and relational aggression according to manners of their presentation. This study is designed to find out whether there are contrasts of aggression type related to gender differences and whether aggression type influences on narcissistic propensity and dominance among middle school students.
The subjects of this research are 427 students, 234 second grade boy students and 193 second grade girl students from three middle schools located in Seoul and Kyoungki Provice. In the research, Crick's aggression gauge, translated and modified by Lee Kyoung Hee, was used to classify the subjects according to aggression type and to calculate the aggression score. Among gauges for self-report inventory, a gauge for narcissistic character disorder was used to measure the narcissistic propensity. Among personality inventory questions, developed by Byoun Chang Jin and Jin Wi Gyo in ChungAng Aptitude Institution, personality inventory about dominance was used to measure the dominance. (p) was conducted to examine the gap of groups related to respondents' gender differences and T-test and one-way ANOVA was conducted to examine the differences of narcissistic propensity and dominance of respondents.
This research is summed up by followings.
First, much more boys show overt aggression and relational aggression than girls. In contrast, girls generally show low aggression compared to boys but they present higher relational aggression than boys.
Second, dramatic differences of narcissistic propensity are not presented related to gender differences. But a group with relational aggression shows higher narcissistic propensity than one with overt aggression.
Third, similarly to narcissistic propensity, remarkable contrasts of dominance are not presented according to gender differences. But a group presenting overt aggression and relational aggression at the same time show higher rate of dominance than one presenting overt aggression and non-aggression.