PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AGGRESSION IN ADOLESCENCE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the generalization of scientific research approaches aggression in adolescence. Today appeal to this topic is primarily due to rising social tension, wars, unprecedented terrorist acts, «rejuvenation» of crime and expanding of aggression. The relevance of prevention of aggression among teenagers due to its ability to develop and transformation in stable personal characteristics, which reduces the possibilities of socialization and full realization of personal potential. The need to study adolescent aggression is defined as age-specific because this age is characterized by complex biological, psychological and social changes. Today, despite the diversity of approaches to the study of aggression within such disciplines as psychology, biology, ethology, criminology, education, etc., there is inconsistency and fragmentation of ideas about the nature and essence of this phenomenon. On this basis, the paper proposes a theoretical and methodological approach to the study of aggression as social action, which allows its complex interpretation, given the influence of different situational factors (cultural, social, personal, biological). The feasibility of using this approach to study adolescent aggression is due, firstly, the relative typicality of aggressive behavior for this age that allows within the proposed model to observe stable causal relationship of various factors. Secondly, in terms of socio-cultural transformation, which are characteristic features of marginality, no established system of values, social polarization, economic and political instability, etc., increases the need to study social determinants of aggressive behavior among adolescents, particularly adolescent relationship value orientations and their propensity to aggressive displays and various agents of socialization role in consolidating and provoking such actions.