A Comparative Study of Aggression between Males and Females

Buss is the most prolific writer and theorist in the psychology of temperament. Buss took upon the very basic temperament trait: aggression. The behavior relevant to personality can be analysed into their components. There are several ways of partitioning particulars, each offering its own enlightenment. Recall that the content are of aggression will be used to provide concrete examples of the various distinctions among behaviours. A.H. Buss and M. Perry (1992) gave four types of aggression – anger, hostility, physical aggression and verbal aggression. A total of 200 subjects (97 females, 103 males) were used in the study. The sample consisted of male/female postgraduate selected randomly from the cross-section of the society. The age of subjects and reported themselves to be in sound mental and physical condition. The objective of this study is to find out the gender differences in aggression. To achieve this objective the items of aggression of EPP (Eysenck personality profiler) were to be used. For measuring these differences MEAN, S.D & t – test were employed. T – test revealed that males are more aggressive in experimental aggressive behavior than females and there is no significant difference in anger, hostility, physical aggression and verbal aggression between males and females.