Assessment of coping skills on adolescents aggression

Pages: 404-406
Deepika Sharma and Sheela Sangwan (Department of Human development & Family Studies, I.C College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana)

The present study “Assessment of Coping Skills on Adolescents Aggression” was undertaken with the specific objectives, viz., (i) to find out the level of coping skills among adolescents, (ii) to assess the coping skills of adolescents as per residential area, (iii) to find out the relationship of coping skills with adolescent aggression. The data was collected from Hisar District of Haryana. A total sample of 250 adolescents’ in the age group of 13-15 years was randomly selected. A Positive Proactive Coping Inventory for adolescents (PCI) developed by Greenglass et al. (2008) was used to assess skills in coping with distress and for dependent variable Aggression scale developed by Mathur and Bhatnagar (2012) was used to study the nature of adolescent aggressive behavior. The collected data were tabulated, processed and analyzed by employing statistical technique i.e. frequencies and z test. Significant differences existed between the proactive (z= 20.30), reflective (z= 6.16), strategic (z= 3.72), preventive (z= 14.56), instrumental (z= 11.14), emotional (z= 1.96) and avoidance coping (z= 6.87) skills of rural and urban adolescents. Also, Urban adolescents had significantly better proactive coping ( = 46.99), reflective coping ( = 35.52), strategic coping ( = 12.71), preventive coping ( = 32.10), instrumental coping ( = 24.89) and emotional coping ( = 16.56) whereas avoidance coping ( = 8.14) was better in adolescents of rural area signifying that adolescents residing in urban area are having better coping skills. Also, it was found that with aggression preventive, instrument and avoidance coping increases whereas proactive and reflective coping decreases.