Problems of Forensic Sciences 2008 Vol. 74 (LXXIV) 121-149
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COHERENCE AND AGGRESSION, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT PSYCHOLOGICAL GENDER, IN JUVENILE GIRLS AND BOYS
Józef K. GIEROWSKI1,2, Monika CYBORAN2, Anna PORAŃSKA2
1Institute of Forensic Research, Krakow, Poland
2Faculty of Psychiatry, Collegium Medicum
Streszczenie
The aim of the study was a comparative analysis of a group of juvenile girls and boys in order to show possible relations between a feeling of coherence and its components and aggression present in various forms, taking into ac count the psychological gender of examined per sons. 193 juveniles from reformatories in Pszczyna, Racibórz and Zawiercie were examined. In the examinations, the Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC-29) by A. Antonovsky, the Aggression Questionnaire by A. H. Buss and M. Perry, and the Inventory of Psychological Gender by A. Kuczyńska were used. The con ducted statistical analysis showed that both girls and boys are characterised by a similar level of coherence that is lower than average for the population. The variable differentiating results in coherence appeared to be psychological gender. It was also shown that juvenile girls are characterised by a higher level of general aggressiveness than boys, and also by verbal aggression, anger and hostility. Both groups obtained similarly high results for physical aggression. The obtained correlations show a general negative relation between level of coherence and aggression in examined per sons; the only exception is verbal aggression, which is positively correlated to general intensity of coherence and a sense of comprehensibility. Summarising, the con ducted research revealed the existence of numerous relations between coherence and aggressiveness, which were modified by the gender of examined per sons – and above all by their psychological gender.
Słowa kluczowe
Juveniles; Coherence; Aggression; Psychological gender.