AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR – Attitude Towards Others.

 

Aggression, Frustration, Confusion, Depression, Possession

Dance it off and trust me you going to feel like new you, 
and it will going to take away your pain!

 Aggression is when actions that intentionally inflict harm on others. Human aggression stems from many different factors. Input variable relating to the situation or person influence cognition, affect and arousal, and these internal states plus other factors, such as appraisal and decision mechanism, determine whether and in what form, aggression occurs. Any response made with the intent of harming some person or object.  Anger represents one of the unpleasant or negative emotions that are learnt by the child during the course of his normal growth and development. Whenever an individual’s freedom is restrained or something happens against his wishes, he may get irritated or angry.

Aggression is an impulsive, irrational behavior wherein an individual wants to intentionally harm another person either physically or mentally. When the environment is unfavorable, unfriendly, unpleasant people might feel low, sad, frustrated, unhappy, and grumpy and further this might lead to aggression.

 CAUSES

Ø   Frustration
Ø   Physical weakness or bodily restraints.
Ø   Unfulfilment of the needs.
Ø   Any interference with the movement of the children.
Ø   When one’s self esteem is hurt.
Ø   Illness
Ø   Hunger
Ø   Constant fault finding
Ø   Blocking of activities already in progress.
Ø   Interference or attack on the wishes, plans, desires, and purpose.
Ø   Fatigue and restlessness.
Ø   When the goal is too high to achieve.
Ø   Exposure to media violence – movies , news , television or video games
Ø   Bullying
Ø   Workplace politics/ abusive supervisor

 WHY AGGRESSION HAPPENS?

Aggression happens because people have this strong desire to vent out those feelings. They think that by releasing those emotions they will feel better, so either they hit or beat people or say hurtful things to make others feel low.

 PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF AGGRESSION

 In most societies throughout the world, punishment - is a major technique for reducing aggression. People who engage in such behavior receive large fines, are put in prison, but in some locations, extreme cases of violence, such as murder may result in capital punishment – legal execution of the convicted criminals.

 Self regulation is our capacity to regulate many aspects of our behavior.Including aggression. For e.g. living together in human society often requires restraining aggressive behavior. Lashing out at others in response to every provocation is definitely not adaptive and can greatly disrupt social life. For this reason, it is clear that we possess effective internal mechanisms for restraining anger and overt aggression. One way in which individuals self regulate their behavior so as to avoid aggression involves thinking prosocial thoughts – thinking about helping others and caring for them. One effective means of reducing human aggression- perhaps an effective one- is strengthen the internal mechanisms that usually operate to control such behavior.

 Forgiveness is giving up the desire to punish someone who has hurt us and seeking, instead to act in kind, helpful ways towards them – may be highly beneficial in many ways including the reduction of subsequent aggression.  Benefits of forgiveness are stronger for relationships to which individuals are strongly committed than for ones to which they are less committed. The closer we are to someone who offends us, the more beneficial it is to forgive them.

 WHY DO SO MANY SOCIETIES PUNISH AGGRESSIVE ACTS?

ü    Individuals who engage acts of aggression viewed as be inappropriate in their societies deserved to be punished.

ü    Reason for punishing people who commit aggressive actions is to deter them from engaging in such behavior in the future.

 Is aggression a mental illness?

It is not. However, aggression often results in behavioral issues. Aggression can co- exists with mental illness. Over time, stress from untreated intense aggression can cause a lot of wear and tear on someone, psychologically and physically. Somebody could be more aggressive or calm depending upon his genes also; it can be caused by many different aspect of the psychic of the person besides being a problem mentally.

 It is an emotionally influenced response to a situation. It is a function of limbic system and is a response to real or imagined threats of the mind and environment. It is mainly regulated by amygdale function as aggression is an outward showing of increased amygdaloidal activity and lessening of activity in the prefrontal cortex, involved with facilities of reasoning and decision making.

  Does your child get angry?

Everything that’s violent is aggressive, but everything that’s aggressive might not be violent. Violent media has a long lasting impact on all minds, hence it increases aggression. Children exposed to violent games, serials, movies grow up with a lot of aggression. Young kids show their aggression in the form of hitting, biting, and screaming. If these kids aren’t taken care of and guided well at a younger age, they grow up become even more aggressive and controlling them becomes a problem for their care givers and all those who come in contact with them.

When children feel angry, don’t tell them to be angry it’s not possible for them to stop feel angry.

 Don’t tell them “you are getting angry for small thing”. For them it’s a big thing.

Don’t lose your own calm. It’s not going to help you it’ll only aggravate.

What can you do? Say them - I can see how angry you are or how upset this situation has made you it happens and I am there with you. Make them feel secure. Let the anger pass.