A Gender Based Psychological Analysis Of Aggressive Behaviour In College Students

Abstract

Approach: In sports field, aggression is an important psychological behaviour that depends on the nature of sports activity. We aimed to look into whether any significance differences found between sportsman and non-sportsman as well as male and female college students in term of aggressive behaviour.

Material and methods: We applied the Aggression questionnaire developed by Roma Pal and Tasneem Naqvi (1980). Here subjects were 18 to 24 years old (N = 300) college students, whom we split into Male Sportsman (MSM=75), Male Non-sportsman (MNSM=75), Female Sportsman (FSM=75) and Female Non-sportsman (FNSM=75). Collecting data were analysed by the SPSS software.

Results: In the present study, we found statistically significant differences between both male and female college students also sportsman and non-sportsman college students in term of aggression. Though there are no statistically significant differences in aggression level between male sportsman and male non-sportsman but opposite results are found when college students are female. The male non-sportsman and male sportsman groups had significantly higher value than female non-sportsman group but female sportsman group had non-significant difference with male sportsman and non-sportsman groups.

Conclusion: According to findings, male sportsman college students are more aggressive than rest of all the groups. Between the two groups MNSM and FNSM there are some significant differences, where MNSM had higher level of aggression than FNSM group. We highly recommended to continue researches on this topic among various positional athletes (For instance, various position in football game like as midfielder, defender etc.) in different kind of sports also.