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| Published: September 19, 2023

Correlation Between Aggression and Loneliness Among Youth

Dr. Deepak Jahagirdar

Associate Professor, Institute of Arts & Humanities, SAGE University, Indore, India Google Scholar More about the auther

, Sarthak Patidar

Research Scholar, Institute of Arts & Humanities, SAGE University, Indore, India Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.345.20231103

DOI: 10.25215/1103.345

ABSTRACT

In the literature loneliness and aggression are associated variables. It indicates that lonely individuals are aggressive and show aggression, while that individual who behaves aggressively becomes lonely increasingly. Loneliness is a common experience and Anger is an emotion, while aggression is the reaction. The main objectives of to study relationship between Aggression and Loneliness and to study the level of aggression and loneliness among Youth. This study was conducted on 60 male and female (n = 30 male; n = 30 female) bachelors students of SAGE University, Indore (India, Madhya Pradesh). The tools or tests used for data collection are LONELINESS INVENTORY (LI) By Uma, Meenakshi, R and AGGRESSION SCALE by Dr. R.L. Bharadwaj. The analysis of data was executed through SPSS version 29.0 and the statistics used to test the hypotheses is Karl Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient and descriptive statistics is used. It was found that there is a significant difference of loneliness and aggression among youth but there is no significant difference of loneliness (X̄ Difference = 0.94) and Aggression (X̄ Difference = 3.03.) among male and female, the results also reflected that there is no significant correlation [ρ = 0.184 (negligible)] of aggression and loneliness among youth. The results indicates that the majority of students having very high aggression level and high loneliness level.

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ISSN 2348-5396

ISSN 2349-3429

18.01.345.20231103

10.25215/1103.345

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Published in   Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September, 2023