Aggression and parental psychological control among youth

Pages: 722-725
Adity Jamwal, Sniya Gupta and Chandra Shekhar (Post Graduate, Department of Psychology, University of Jammu, Jammu )

The present study was conducted to identify the difference in Aggression and Parental Psychological Control among Youth. The purposive sampling of hundred young adults out of which fifty male and fifty female Participants were taken. Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992) and Parental Psychological Control (Barber, 1996) was used in this study. The results found a significant difference in both the scales i.e. Aggression and Parental psychological control. On all the dimensions of aggression i.e. physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger and hostility, significant differences were obtained. In the scores obtained on the scale of parental psychological control the results were also significant between male and female students. Males were found to be more aggressive than female students and a positive correlation between aggression and parental psychological control was also found.