Aggression in Iran 5 to 11 Grade Children in Relation to Parental Involvement and Attachment- Security

Abstract

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).