Relations between aggressiveness and a feeling of tension, social control and contacts in crime peer environment among high school students

The aim of the experiment described in the current paper was to analyze existing relationships between physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger, and hostility and an overall level of tension (and its types), social control and contacts in crime environment among girls and boys from above secondary schools. Altogether, there were 133 participants (66 girls and 67 boys aged between 16 and 18 years old). The measurements used were as follows: Aggression Questionnaire by Buss–Perry in Amita version (prepared by E. Aranowska J., Rytel, and A. Szymańską, 2015) investigating four dimensions of aggressiveness, and Questionnaire of a feeling of tension and restricting factors by E. Czerwińska-Jakimiuk (2011). A method of diagnostic survey was used and the experiment had a qualitative character. A correlation analysis using a rho-Spearman factor between the above-mentioned dimensions of aggressiveness and an overall level of tension (and its types), social control, and contacts in crime environment revealed significant relationships between variables, both among girls and boys. Among girls, none from the analyzed scales of tension and contacts in crime environment showed any significant relationship with verbal aggression. Among boys, a majority of the scales of tension, social control, and also contacts in crime environment correlated significantly with dimensions of aggressiveness.