What Leads to Aggressive Personality

Abstract

This research paper entails the research on the causes that lead to the aggressive personality. The major reason found by the research is that parenting style and family functionality are the preliminary factors that lead to the aggressive behavior or non aggressive behavior in the child, which later takes the part of the personality of the person.Table of Content

Abstracti

Introduction2

Discussion3

Child Temperament and Parenting: Effects of Interaction3

Parental Stress and Family Dysfunction5

Supervision of Parents6

Conclusion6

References7

What Leads to Aggressive Personality

Introduction

Thesis Question: Is parenting style and family functionality preliminary step leading towards aggressive personality?

Aggression is defined as the behavior that leads to the causing or threatening physical harms to others. Aggression is not a unitary terms, rather it encompasses of multiplicity of behaviors, which includes bullying, robbery, verbal aggression, physical fighting, homicide and rape (Loeber & Hay, 1997). A consistent finding by the researchers leads to the surprise that early childhood starts during early life of a person, and at about the age of four reaches the peak (Campbell, Shaw & Gilliom, 2000). It has been found that aggressive pattern becomes evident during the preschool entry age of a child. It has been found that 67% of children, who were reported within the clinical range of disorder of conduct at the age of two, were still going through conduct disorder at the age of five and six years; and approximately one third of the five year old reported children of conduct disorder were still aggressive by the age of 14. Moffitt (1993) demonstrated that 86% of children, who were engaged in conduct disorder at the age of seven, were still revealing similar behavior at the age of 15. Aggressive behavior problems are present during preschool children, and these behaviors are maintained by 50% of these children during adolescence, and adequate number of children further engages in antisocial behavior (Campbell 1995).

The children, who perseveres the behavior of aggression, are of serious concerns. A little percentage of adolescents is accounted for the majority of arrest and violent acts (about 6%). A Stockholm study demonstrated that 6.2% of males are indulged in committing 70% of all offences, with 71% of the offences that are violent in nature are committed by the gang up to the age of 30 years.

Majority of the serious aggression; however not all, during adolescence and adulthood phase is committed by youth, who have been observing the persistent aggressive behavior, since childhood. Another life span pattern that leads to aggressive behavior is described as adolescence limited variety or adolescence onset variety. This refers to that youth, who was not aggressive, starts observing aggression during adolescence.

Discussion

The developments of aggressive behavior in a child are multi-factorial which includes, parenting and familial variables. The multiple of factors concerned, and the impending developmental paths or trajectories, which followed increases the ecological contexts expansion in a child after the period of preschool. The child's aggressive behavior is normal, but the challenge is to control it. Often causes the child to an adult so he can act in place ...