Cat fit and bull fight: Assessment of aggression in medical students as a prelude to conduct violence in future

Abstract

Background: The intensity of aggression present in any person determines his/her threat to conduct violent and impulsive act against members of the society or else family, friends or foes, which necessitates a crucial analytical instrument for identification of such behaviour in smaller groups of societies.
 Objectives: To assess a group of medical students from Kathmandu, Nepal for potential risk they bear to conduct violence in future medical practice.
 Methodology: A self-administered pre-validated Bush and Perry Aggression Questionnaire was used in this descriptive cross-sectional study to analyse emotional and cognitive component among 235 medical students of Nepal between February and May 2019. A Likert-type bipolar scale was used for response format ranging from one (extremely uncharacteristic) to five (extremely characteristic). Questionnaire explored four factors: physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger and hostility. Mean scores of aggression were computed and compared with gender and level of education by conducting independent t-test with level of significance at 0.05.
 Results: The mean scores were 20.73± 6.33, 13.97± 3.87, 18.79± 5.20 and 20.17±6.68, for physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger and hostility respectively. Males had higher score of physical aggression statistically significant at p<0.05. The mean Bush and Aggression Perry Questionnaire score was calculated to be 71.66± 15.71, but insignificant (p>0.05) when compared between sexes, and level of education (second semester and seventh semester students).
 Conclusion: Male medical students were more prone to hostility and physical aggression than female students who were more liable (statistically insignificant) to verbal aggression and anger.

Aggressive Behavior and Psychosocial Adjustment among Port Said University Adolescent Students

“…This finding was confirmed by a study conducted by Alradaydeh and Alorani (2017) (34) who reported that the major type of aggressive behavior among university students in Jordan was physical aggression, followed by hostility, anger, and verbal aggression. Moreover, Acharya, et al (2019) (40) , mentioned that physical aggression was the most prominent type of aggression among 235 university students from Nepal. In this respect, Bukhari et al (2017) (41) concluded that male was higher in anger and physical aggression, however, females exhibited higher verbal aggression and hostility.…”