A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON AGGRESSION BETWEEN BOYS AND GIRLS ADOLESCENT
Keywords:
Aggression, Adolescent and Psychology.Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare the Aggression in boys with girls. A group of 100 adolescents (50 boys & 50 girls), aged 14 – 16 years recruited to participate in the study. The data were collected using Aggression Scale by Mathur and Bhatnagar (2004).To test the hypothesis ‘t’ test was calculated. Result showed that there was a significant differences between boys and girls on aggression (t = 2.21, P < 0.05). On the t-test, the two groups differed significantly on their aggression. Boys were more aggressive than girls
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