ustificatory attitudes of aggressive and violent behavior in university students in Medellín, Colombia, 2001

Authors

  • Diego Castrillón M Universidad de Antioquia
  • Fernando Vieco G señor

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rfnsp.830

Keywords:

Aggression, violence, attitude, reliability, university students

Abstract

Attitudes to justify aggressive behavior were studied in a sample of 500 peoples, 258 females and 242 males, in two public universities of Medellin, Colombia (University of Antioquia and National University) and a private university (Cooperative University of Colombia). The field - work is supported by a theoric frame built on different points of view about aggressiveness, violence and aggression, all of which put in context the
results of the study making them meaningful. This work is based on a comparative - descriptive design, and it pretends to compare results by gender and university type. An analysis is carried out about how the studied population uses different types of aggressiveness such as direct, indirect, physical and verbal, in differents situations where they find it useful. The indicators used to measure aggressiveness derive from the application of a group of aggression tests made from four scales: EXPAGG, (aggressive expression cuestionary), DIAS (direct an indirect aggressive scale), AQ (aggressive questionary) and EAS (situacional aggressive and justify belief scale), all of them showing a reliable and valid process. The findings show that men use most direct and physical aggression while women are mostly indirect and verbal in their aggressiveness. The results of this work may promote strategies in education and intervention as well as the prevention of violent and aggressive behavior in young people.
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Author Biography

Diego Castrillón M, Universidad de Antioquia

Profesor Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública

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Published

2009-03-10

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Castrillón M D, Vieco G F. ustificatory attitudes of aggressive and violent behavior in university students in Medellín, Colombia, 2001. Rev. Fac. Nac. Salud Pública [Internet]. 2009 Mar. 10 [cited 2025 Apr. 4];20(2). Available from: https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/fnsp/article/view/830

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