Paternal support to aggressive behaviors of junior high schools students in Balanga City / [manuscript] Kamaljit Kaur.

Thesis (MAEd - G&C) BPSU, 2021.

The purpose of this study is to determine the aggressive behaviour of junior high school students and how their fathers affect this certain behaviour. Using a quantitative - descriptive design and with the involvement of seventy-two (72) randomly selected respondents, the findings of this study shed some light on how fathers may affects to aggressive behaviour of their children. Two (2) different research instruments were untilized in this study: (a) The Aggression Scale: A Self-Report Measure of Aggressive Behavior, and (b) The Paternal Support for Aggressive Behaviour Scale. It was concluded that the male students are more aggressive compared to the female ones. It was also revealed that an average of 30.56% of the fathers supported aggressive behavior of their children by doing any of the ten (10) indicators listed at the Paternal Support for Aggressive Behavior Scale. Implications to the findings and appropriate intervention plan was discussed.