A comparative study on aggression and forgiveness in adolescent boys and girls

Pages: 1045-1047
Vatsla Mohan (Department of Psychology, G.S.S.S Kaithal, Haryana)

The present study attempt to explore the gender difference in the level of different forms of aggression and forgiveness in adolescent boys and girls. The sample was comprised of 400 students (200 boys & 200 girls) in the age range of 14-19 years. The Aggression questionnaire by Buss and Perry and the Forgiveness scale by Berry et al. (2005) were used to evaluate aggression and forgiveness among adolescent boys and girls. T-test was used to analyze the results. The result indicated that there was significant difference in physical and verbal aggression and anger and no significant difference was found in hostility and forgiveness. The results have been discussed with empirical findings.