Involvement and Attachment- Security

Aggression is a response that delivers noxious stimuli to another organism, in the form of a subtle stimulus such as an insult or verbal harangue. Aggression is often accompanied by strong negative emotional states. The emotion that we can call anger is usually aroused by some provocation. Aggression is the result of two variables. One is state of the person in which the person is capable of aggression, is ready to aggress and has aggressive responses available.The other is a situation that elicit the actual aggressive behavior. In the present investigation an effort has been made to probe into some of the factors related to aggression in 5 to 11 grade school children of Palestine. The variables chosen were personal parental involvement (social, academic, and total) and attachment security (dependency, availability, and total)