Social skills and aggressive behavior of adolescents

In order for a man as a social being to achieve appropriate social development, it is necessary to know and understand the norms, rules and values of the community in which the individual lives. School life takes place in the interaction between students and teachers. Different forms of aggressive behavior are observed in the school environment. Today, as a protective factor against aggressive behavior, special importance is attached to social skills, however, one of the questions is how effective are the programs based on social skills in preventing maladaptive behaviors among young people? Therefore, the main problem of this research was to examine the relationship between social skills and aggressive behavior of young people, while the aim of the work was to investigate the predictive values of social skills for aggressiveness, and to determine differences in relation to gender and school success. The research was conducted on a convenience sample of 823 adolescents from the area of Tuzla Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The results of the research indicated that it is important to develop social skills in order to make aggressive behavior prevention programs more effective.