Social factors determining 5–6 year-old children’s absorption of aggressive behavioural patterns from television programs

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Abstract. The article presents research results concerning social factors determining 5-6-year-olds' absorption of aggressive behavioural patterns from television programs. The study was conducted among pre-school children in three settings: cities, towns and rural areas. The findings refer to the influence of various social factors, such as family, peer community and place of residence, on children's aggressive behaviour.Keywords: the media, aggression, pre-school children.Aggression among children has found its way to numerous pedagogical dissertations, which have inspected the problem from personal, collective, social, legal, or cultural angles. The broad spectrum of researchers' interest is, on the one hand, rooted in the complexity of problems within school environment, and on the other hand, in the significance of prevalence of aggressive behaviour at educational premises, as well as in the scope of emphasis on its prevention and elimination. In literature, we often encounter interchangeable use of the notions violence and aggres-