Abstract

Aggression or frustration is a sentiment that is felt by all and if not dealt with it appropriately can
cause damaging effects, particularly in lives of students and youngsters. Recent study looks into
the sex differences in aggression by including 100 people (50 female and 50 male) from the
campus of Karachi University, Business School. Their ages ranged from 18-25. With the help of
the 5Point Aggression Scale, information was gathered from both the sexes in a month’s time.
The outcomes demonstrate that females are more aggressive than men (30%: 22%). It also
illustrates that people show high levels of aggression and about one fourth of them lie on the
higher side of the scale.

The outcomes prove that the idea we generally have, that men are more aggressive than female,
false. Moreover, it demonstrates that the pattern of anger is varying and in the current period, bot
the genders experience equivalent emotion.
Introduction

The word “aggression” can be defined as the behavioral actions of ourselves and of people. The
notion, in psychology, is defined as numerous actions which lead to physical and emotional
damage to a person. Social psychologists refer it as a behavior that is aimed to destruct those
who do not want to be affected (Baron & Richardson 1994).

The emotion is initially seen in newborns when they demonstrate facial frustration. It then
attacks others by snatching other infant’s toy or slapping them. One observational research
emphasized that the snatching of toys differs in both the genders at 27 months. Overall, there is
not an escalating degree of gender difference in frustration as the infant becomes older.

Based on reports, physical aggression is seen at higher levels in boys when they cross one year of
their age. It eventually declines from the age of 2 to 4 years, and is substituted by other ways of
solving issues. However, both the genders show a decline but the gender difference remains
through early stages and middle age.

Studies also demonstrate that increased levels of physical aggression are experienced until 11
years of age and further and are mostly seen in boys. The group of girls shows less of physical
frustration in their babyhood. Furthermore, research of grownups demonstrates a huge difference
between males and females, and that proportion of men showing harmful actions of aggression is
more than women.

With the decrease in physical violence with age, there are two essential development factors;
first an increase in non-bodily forms of violence and the impact of physical violence when it
happens.

Verbal violent behavior comprise of frightening activities that included physical violence, and
conflicts and verbal arguments that leads to degrade the person ahead. These patterns differ in
men and women that fit the variations amongst their communal groups and what is held essential
in these.
Keeping the differences in mind, verbal form of aggression, face-to-face is seen more in males
tan in females from early stages to old age.

Indirect verbal form of frustrations is experienced more in females than in males. It includes
causing impairment to the repute of others or secluding from groups. Researches demonstrate
that indirect frustration increased in the years between 11-17 years and female’s more
interference than males increases from the mid babyhood to 17 years of age. Some mothers
researches demonstrate that indirect violence increases when the physical violence declines.
Females show higher levels in indirect form of aggression than males from the age starting from
4-8 to 22 years.

Girls show high levels of indirect form of aggression and moderate amount of physical violence
as compared to boys. On the other hand, males tend to show lower levels of indirect frustration
with moderate physical violence

Physical violence decreases with the passing time, its impact in relation to damages caused,
increases to an extent in adulthood, as determined by harmful acts and assassinations and these
actions are demonstrated mostly by men.

However, these grave kinds of aggressions decrease in the late 20s and continue to be experience
later on .

Studies have also found that the gender difference in aggression remains at ages 65-95.
Literature Review

In the 1950s, a number of investigations were carried out on aggression particularly emphasizing
on children, youngsters, adults. These implied that boys, specially younger ones, are more
aggressive than girls. But the notion has changed; a number of serious crimes haven been carried
out by females. Statistical data act as evidence that sex difference are more prominent in the
stage of youth. (Estevez et al, 2012).

The gender difference is examined during the development of the person. In the babyhood
period, examining becomes difficult but as they become young, girls and boys, are able to
cognitively become aware of ways to gender roles. The younger ones are able to perceive and
think about what has been out forth by the society.

Eagly and Steffen have shown that sex differences were related to numerous attributes of the
research even if in some aspects men were seen more aggressive than women. The males were
involved in violent behaviors that caused harm or inflicted pain instead of causing social harm.
They focused on that gender differences in aggression were due to social aspects.

A research on gender differences in frustration was carried out by Hay (2007). In the
observational and other researches, it is demonstrated that during babyhood, the extent of
expressing the emotion is the same in boys and girls. It suggested that boys are likely to get more
aggressive only for a few years after that. Furthermore, the examination of the hypothesis
relating to the huge gap between the sexes has been conducted that comprise of standard patterns
of aggression where girls let go and boys showed more of the emotion. There were other ways
adopted by girls to show aggression which were due to emotional issues. The sensitive nature of
boys towards a particular situations leads to aggression. There were mixed proofs on each
hypothesis. The basic difference between the genders were due to less number of males who
demonstrated increased level of aggression deployment.

Parker et al (2005) carried out a research on youngsters to examine the difference in people
related to aggression, self respect and social adjustment. The first research included 94
youngsters who examined their “friendship jealousy” and came to a conclusion that girls and
people with little self respect experienced higher level of jealousy. This showed that the young
one’s yearning for status for friendship jealousy was linked to acting aggressively.

A research carried by Onukwufor (2013) on verbal and physical forms of aggression among
youngsters. The outcomes showed prominent differences amongst girls and boys regarding
physical aggression, keeping boys on higher levels.
References

http://www.child-encyclopedia.com/sites/default/files/dossiers-complets/en/aggression.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305386853_Young_Adults_and_Aggression_A_Comparative
_Study_of_Gender_Differences