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Correlational Study
| Published: September 19, 2023
Correlation Between Aggression and Loneliness Among Youth
Associate Professor, Institute of Arts & Humanities, SAGE University, Indore, India Google Scholar More about the auther
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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© 2023, Jahagirdar, D. & Patidar, S.
Received: July 11, 2023; Revision Received: September 15, 2023; Accepted: September 19, 2023
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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