Young People's Aggressive Behavior And Temperament, Emotional Relationship

Aggression which is based on behavior and characterizes of behavior itself is estimation for some injured behavior. As far as System Theory is concerned, there are two kinds of factors. One kind is called the exterior system which is related to the social-cultural factors, and other is involved in some subsystems such as cognition, personality, emotion and biological process and so on. Therefore, discussing the relationship between temperament, emotion and aggressive behaviors would enhance to understand the mechanism of aggression and to decrease the rate of aggressive behavior. Adolescence is a critical period in the lifespan, because person is confronting a series of developmental tasks about biology, cognition and social stature etc. through childhood to adulthood. So those may engage in some psychological problems, even the most serious kind-- aggressive behavior of adolescence. Adolescence's aggressive behavior has the importance contact with the unsteady of its inner system. Furthermore, it appearing some differences from characters of children or adults. Recently, it is becoming more and more important along with increasing rate of violent crimes in adolescence.In the research, aggression was assessed by two measures: one was self-reported version of the Aggression Questionnaire and the other was the Peer Nomination Inventory. Temperament and anger were self-reported by adolescent using Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire and the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory. The sample of research was made up of 458 students of junior school and 79 male criminals of adolescence. The mains findings as follow:1. There was not sex difference in levels of self-reported aggression among students junior school. But boys had more overtly aggressive behaviors which can be observed by peer than girls.2. Adolescences with high scores in aggression had low levels of attention and self-control. 3. Participants in high aggressive group showed higher levels of state anger, trait anger and express anger than participants in low aggressive group, and showed lower levels of anger-control.4. There was gender difference among participants with high scores inaggression over emotion. Boys with high scores in aggression showed higher levels of state anger and trait anger than girls with high scores in aggression. However, there was not gender difference from the participants with low scores in aggression.5. Temperament and anger can predict the aggressive behavior. Temperament predicts aggressive behavior by emotion of anger.6. The temperament characterized of delinquent juveniles is low levels control of activity and inhibitory as well as attention.7. Delinquent juveniles showed significance higher levels of state anger and trait anger than students of junior school with high scale aggression.These findings in the study not only contribute to explaining aggressive behavior, but also provide theories about identify of adolescence with high aggression. Thus we can avoid the occurrence of aggressive behavior better.