Aggression as Related to Family Climate of Secondary School Students

Aggression in humans ranges through fear-induced aggression, parental disciplinary aggression, maternal aggression, and sexual aggression. One clearly biologically adaptive type, defensive aggression, occurs when fight responses are mobilized in defense of an organism's vital interests, such as obtaining food or the protection of its young. The aim of defensive aggression is not destruction but the preservation of life. Thus, aggression can serve both destructive and constructive purposes. So, today's children are the future of tomorrow. Their future depends on the type of education which is provided to them in the schools, depends on the environment in which they are growing. Family climate plays an important role in determining the attitude and behavior of the child. The purpose of the present study is to find out the relationship between aggression and family climate of school going children. These tools were used to study the relationship between two variables 1.Aggression Questionnaire by G.C Pati(1976). 2. Family climate Questionnaire by B. Shah (1990). Statistics like mean, median and standard deviation were calculated to study the general nature of the data. It is finally found from studies that there exist a negative correlation between Aggression and Family Climate of the Secondary school Students.