WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Intesar K. Younis*, Muzahim Mohammed Aboosh and Besmah Mohammed Ali

ABSTRACT

Background: Aggression is any behavior intending to harm another person, either direct or indirectly. Family is the first nucleus for child behaviors, most young children learned negative reactions from adults that tend to make the child’s behaviors worse with time. A lot of young children live with single or none of parents as a result of death or divorced parents this situation was an encourage to study aggression. Objective: To show aggression rate among adolescents in Mosul city with relation to presence of parents. Materials and methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in Mosul city including adolescents live with both parents or missing one or both of them. The sample was chosen by stratified random sampling. A total of 1000 adolescents aged 11-21 years at secondary schools were involved in the study. Data were collected by face to face interview using Aggression-Problem Behavior Frequency Scale questionnaire. Chi square test was used and P value > 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: There were 916 (91.6%) aggressive students in the study sample aggression were significantly higher among adolescents who live with single or none parents (97.6%, 89.9%, respectively). There was statistically significant association between aggression and living without parents (p=0.000) as shown. Conclusions: Aggression behavior was high among adolescents missing parents were determinant factors for aggression Mosul.

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