Abstract

SILVA-FERNANDEZ, Claudia Susana  and  PABON-POCHES, Daysy Katherine. Risk factors associated to aggressiveness in teenagers: a differentiation based on sex. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2023, vol.17, n.1, pp.43-55.  Epub Nov 02, 2023. ISSN 1900-2386.  https://doi.org/10.21500/19002386.6245.

The aggressiveness has been recognized as prevalent in teenage population due to their impulsive character, with that emotional instability which characterizes adolescence. This conducts to the need of knowing the frequency and the relationship of risk factors of aggressiveness in teenage population, exploring their differences according to sex. Thus, this research of quantitative approach, non-experimental design, cross-sectional of correlational scope, studied the presence and the relations between aggressiveness and its risk factors in 212 teenage women and 188 teenage men between 12 and 17 years of age. For this, a record card of risk factor evaluation was implemented along with the questionnaire of premediated / impulsive aggressiveness (CAPI-A in Spanish). The findings show a higher prevalence of impulsive aggressiveness and the presence of more relations to risk factors in women than in men. The relevant risk factors in women are the attitudes towards norms, the perception about aggressiveness and the feelings; in men, risk conducts and feelings are the ones to mention. These results useful for the comprehension of aggressiveness as a behavioral pattern, and the design of preventive interventions towards aggressiveness and their consequences.

Keywords : Aggressiveness; teenage behavior; risk factors; aggressiveness in teenagers; adolescents; statistical correlation.

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