The Effect of Socio-Economic Status and Gender on Adolescent Anger in Chittagong

Abstract

The present study attempted an empirical investigation to explore the effect of socioeconomic status and gender on adolescent anger at Chittagong in Bangladesh. A total 120 respondents constituted the sample of the study. Among them 60 (50%) adolescents were male and 60 (50%) were female. The respondents came from different socioeconomic status. 40 (33.3%) adolescents were from higher class, 40 (33.3%) from middle class and the rest of 40 (33.3%) were from lower class. An adapted Bangla version of "Adolescent Anger Rating Scale" (AARS) was used for measuring adolescents' anger. Data were analyzed by using mean, standard deviation and two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The findings of the present study show that gender and socioeconomic status have significant effect on adolescents' anger. Male respondents express more anger than female respondents. With low SES expressed more anger than the middle and high SES. Also respondents with middle SES expressed more anger than the high SES. Result also shows that there is no significant interaction between gender and socioeconomic status.