An Attempt at Determining Reasons for Violent Behaviour Through Quantitative and Qualitative Approach

Cilj ovog istraživanja je vidjeti možemo li pomoću kvalitativne obrade kvantitativno prikupljenih podataka utvrditi razloge nasilnog ponašanja među mladima. Kvantitativni dio istraživanja je proveden na prigodnom uzorku od N=51 sudionika, učenika prvih razreda srednje škole Gimnazije Daruvar. Za potrebe kvantitativnog dijela prikupljanja podataka korišten je Upitnik agresivnosti (Buss i Perry, 1992), a za potrebe kvalitativnog dijela, polustrukturirani intervju nastao na temelju Upitnika agresivnosti. U kvalitativnom dijelu istraživanja sudjelovalo je pet sudionika s minimalnim i pet s maksimalnim rezultatom na Upitniku agresivnosti. U obradi kvalitativnih podataka korištena je metoda „Analiza okvira“. Kvantitativna obrada nam pruža uvid u izraženost agresivnih ponašanja među mladima te razlike na četiri dimenzije Upitnika agresivnosti. Kvalitativna obrada podataka nam pruža dublji uvid u razlike među sudionicima s minimalnim i maksimalnim rezultatom na Upitniku agresivnosti te razlike među sudionicima na individualnoj razini. Iako postoje razlike koje su dobivene kvantitativnom metodom, kvalitativna obrada pokazuje da postoji i mnoštvo karakteristika koje obje skupine sudionika dijele. Pokazano je kako se dvije skupine sudionika uglavnom razlikuju u izražavanju agresivnoga ponašanja ali da su percepcije, emocije i kognicije dosta slične za obje skupine sudionika.The aim of this study was to see whether we can use qualitative analysis of data collected with quantitative method to determine the reasons for violent behavior among youth. The quantitative part of the research was conducted on a sample of N = 51 participants, firstgrade students of high school Gymnasium Daruvar. For the purposes of gathering quantitative data we used Aggression Questionnaire (Buss and Perry, 1992), and for the qualitative part, semi-structured interview that was based on Aggression Questionnaire. The qualitative part of the study was conducted on five participants with a minimum, and five participants with maximum score on Aggression Questionnaire. The method we used for qualitative data processing is called "Framework analysis". Quantitative analysis provides us with insight into the prominence of aggressive behavior among youth, and differences between four dimensions of Aggression Questionnaire. Qualitative data processing gives us a deeper insight into the differences between the participants with the minimum and maximum score on the Aggression Questionnaire and the differences among the participants at the individual level. Although there are differences that are obtained by quantitative method, qualitative analysis shows that there are a lot of characteristics shared by both groups of participants. It is shown that the two groups of respondents are mainly differing in the expression of aggressive behavior but their perceptions, emotions and cognition are quite similar