Attitude to Aggressive Behaviour and Intention of Aggressive Behaviour among Adolescent School Children in Selangor state-Malaysia

Abstract

This paper was written to entails the results collected after conducting an empirical research which focuses on attitude to aggressive behaviour and Intention of aggressive behaviour among adolescent school children in Selangor state Malaysia. This research was conducted in other to observed adolescent attitude that allow the students to engage in aggressive behaviour. The aim and objective here is to explore the level and relationship in attitude to aggressive behaviour and intention of aggressive behaviour among secondary school children. The research work also tries to explore how school children’s attitude can contribute to intention of aggressive behaviour. The total of 426 respondents was selected through random sampling techniques. And the instrument used for data collection was survey questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed by using Pearson correlation analysis to examine the strength of the relation between attitude to aggressive behaviour and intention of aggressive behaviour among the respondents. The t-test analysis was also run to examine the significant difference of race to intention of aggressive behaviour. And the research work used 426 school children for effective coverage, collecting information and validated data which can justify the accrued result against the respondents. The data collected from the survey was analyzed and the result shows that there is a moderate level of attitude to aggressive behaviour and intention of aggressive behaviour among the respondents. This result comes up by using descriptive analysis. While the correlation analysis shown that there is a significant positive medium relationship between attitude to aggressive behaviour and intention of aggressive behaviour (r= 0.278, p < 0.05). While the t-test results show that there is a significant difference between Malay and Non- Malay on intention to involve in aggressive behaviour. Thus, it is recommended that Ministry of Education, teachers, parents, and policy makers in any level of government should assist school children in making their school environment safe for learning.

Key words: Adolescent School children, Attitude to aggressive behaviour, Intention, aggressive behaviour.