ISSN 2348-1218 (print) International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations ISSN 2348-1226 (online) Vol. 11, Issue 1, pp: (5-10), Month: January 2023 - March 2023, Available at: www.researchpublish.com
Relationship between Prosocial behaviour and Aggression among College Students Dr. Prajakta Bhadgaonkar DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7520289
Published Date: 10-January-2023
Abstract: Several changes occur throughout the transition to maturity, including changes in behaviour, emotions, and cognitions. Growing maturity occurs hand in hand with other demands during the transition from adolescent to adulthood, such as taking care of oneself and others, making independent decisions, and becoming self-sufficient. Prosocial behaviour can be one of the factors to reduce aggressive actions. Both being the components of social psychology, this study aims at finding a correlation between the two in college going students. A total 102 students (Nmales=28, Nfemales=72) participated for the study from India. Prosocialness scale by Caprara et. al. 2005(M females =64.63, SD=9.03), (M males =59.66, SD=9.36), (t=2.422ns) and Aggression Questionnaire by Buss., A.H., & Perry, M. 1992 (Mfemales =72.30, SD=15.27), (Mmales=73.62, SD=17.902), (t=-.360ns) were used for measurements. The study indicated that there is no significant difference amongst males and females in relation with prosocial behaviour and aggression. Results indicated negative correlation between prosocial behaviour and aggression but non-significant (r=-0.17 ns). Keywords: Prosocial behaviour, Aggression, Social Psychology.
1. INTRODUCTION The transition to adulthood is marked by several changes including behavior, emotions, and cognitions. During the transition from adolescence to adulthood, increasing maturity comes hand in hand with some other expectations such as taking care and responsibility of self as well others, making independent decisions, and becoming self-sufficient (Arnett 2000). Prosocial behavior can be stated as a social skill that might help in reducing the aggression effects in a person. Prosocial behavior is the actions by individuals that help others (often, with no immediate benefit to the helper)—which are a very common part of social life. It is denoting or exhibiting behavior that benefits one or more other people, such as assisting an older adult crossing the street. It is characterized by acts of kindness, compassion, and helping behaviors, which many consider being one of the finest qualities of human nature. Aggression is behavior directed toward the goal of harming another living being who is motivated to avoid such treatment. Trait aggression describes individual differences in thoughts (e.g., hostility), emotions (e.g., anger), and behavior (e.g., verbal and Physical Aggression) that are intended to harm another person. Regarding the Big Five personality traits, trait aggression often relates positively with neuroticism, inconsistently with extraversion, and negatively with agreeableness, openness, and conscientiousness. According to social psychology, the keyword aggression is mainly used for the most important aspect which is displayed as any behavior that should injure another man who doesn't intend to be hatred (Baron & Richardson, 1994). Aggression is defined as taking action with the goal of physically or verbally harming another person. Aggressive conduct, physical, social, psychological, and material injuries all result in someone being hurt (Leary, Twenge, Quinlivan, Leary, & Quinlivan, 2006). There are two sorts of hostility: explicit aggression and intrinsic aggression (Grumm, Hein, & Fingerle, 2011). Explicit aggression is defined as hostility that is committed with the goal of damaging another person and can be directly quantified. Implicit aggressiveness, on the other hand, is the end product of self-evaluation, which can only be measured indirectly. So that it can be concluded that aggression is the behavior of injuring others intentionally, resulting in harm to the victim, physically, socially, and psychologically.
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