Correlation between parental verbal violence behaviour and the aggressiveness of adolescents

Abstract

Introduction: The phenomenon of adolescents’ aggressive behaviour today has never subsided and even tends to increase. The factors causing the high incidence of quarrels are still unknown, but family quarrels and parental exposure to childhood abuse are predictors of aggressiveness among adolescents. This study aimed to examine the relationship between parents’ verbal violence behaviour and adolescents’ aggressive behaviour. Methods: A cross-sectional design was used in this study. Atotalof122highschoolstudentswereselected as samples through simple random sampling. The variables in this study were verbal violence as an independent variable and adolescent aggressiveness as the dependent variable. Data was measured using a verbal violence questionnaire and an adolescent’s aggressiveness questionnaire, which were tested for validity and reliability. The data were then analysed by the Spearman correlation test. Results: Verbal violence committed by parents in mild verbal violence was 73.8 %, while as much as 68 % of the aggressive behaviour carried out by subjects was in the mild category. There is a significant correlation between verbal violence behaviour and aggressive behaviour in adolescents (p-value 0.0001) with r correlation = 0.510, a correlation with moderate strength. Conclusion: Verbal violence by parents leads to more reproachful behaviour every time adolescents make mistakes; this affects the behaviour of adolescents, leading them to become irritable and commit harmful actions such as throwing, kicking, or slamming objects when they become angry. Parental understanding is needed to shift the punishment method positively to suppress the impact of aggressiveness that may appear in adolescents.