AGGRESSION AND ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Aggression and Anti Social behavior

Aggression and Anti Social Behavior

Introduction

The aggressive child is one of the main complaints of parents and educators about children, often giving. Often we face bullies, manipulators, or rebels but do not really know how we should act with them or how we can influence their behavior to achieve change. However, without doubt, one of the main problems presented by children aggressiveness is its high correlation with equivalent disorders in adults, particularly related to antisocial behavior. Overly aggressive behavior in childhood predicts not only the manifestation of aggression during adolescence and adulthood, but also the existence of a greater likelihood of academic failure and the existence of other psychological disorders in adulthood, mainly due to difficulties wings these children are in socialize and adapt to their environment.

Discussion

Children's Aggression

The aggression comes from the Latin word "assaulted" which means "attack." It implies that someone is determined to impose its will on another person or object even if it means that the consequences could cause physical or psychological damage. Aggression is a consistent response to provide a noxious stimulus to another agency. A harmful and destructive behavior is socially defined as aggressive. Aggression is "an aversive event dispensing to the conduct of another person." Aggression a behavior aimed at harming a person or even object. Reviewing the various definitions we can conclude that aggression is any behavior intended to cause physical or psychological harm to someone or thing, whether it is animate or inanimate (Baumeister, 2009).

Aggressive Behavior

Aggressive behavior is intentional behavior, which can cause harm whether physical or psychological. Other behaviors such as hitting, teasing them, offend tantrums or inappropriate language used to call others.

Classification of Aggressive Behavior

We can classify aggressive behavior taking three variables:

According to the mode, it may be a physical assault (e.g. a tank in a body to using weapons or bodily elements) or verbal (such as a vocal response that is harmful to the other body, for example, threaten or reject).

According to the interpersonal relationship, bullying can be direct (for example, threaten, attack or rejection) or indirectly (that could be verbal disclosure of a gossip, or physical, such as destroying someone's property) (Woolfolk, 2010).

Depending On the Degree of Activity Involved

Aggression can be active (that includes all the above) or passive (such as preventing the other can reach your goal, or negativity). Passive aggression is usually straightforward, but can sometimes manifest indirectly. In the case of children, it is usually presented directly aggression as a violent act against a person. This act of violence can be physical, such as kicking, pinching, pushing, hitting, etc..., Or verbal, such as insults, swearing, threats. You can also express aggression indirectly or displaced, according to which the child lashes out at those objects has been the source of conflict (Thomas, 2009).

Theories on Aggressive Behavior

According to Ballesteros (1983), theories have been formulated to explain the aggression can be divided into following ...