Aggressive Behavior: Comparative Study on Girls and Boys in The Middle School

Abstract

Adolescents in carrying out social actions sometimes show behaviours that harm or hurt others such as insulting, teasing, bullying, fighting, and various other actions. This social act is called aggressive behaviour. Like as controlling themselves, especially their emotions, girls and boys have significant differences in their actions. Therefore, there may also be differences between girls and boys in engaging in aggressive behaviour. Therefore, this study aims to compare of the aggressive behaviour in middle school from the perspective of girls and boys. 200 middle school’s students in Kayu Agung, South Sumatera (100 girls and 100 boys) as research respondents in this comparative. The results of the T-test found that the value of sig. (two-tailed) = 0.000, which means less than 0.05. So that boy students who have a higher tendency to aggressiveness than girls with an average score of boy respondents are 79.73 and girls are 69,46.