Difference In Agression Of Females And Males
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Difference In Agression Of Females And Males
Aggressive Behaviour: Questions
In an analysis of gender aggression men and women tend to behave differently. Compare the differences in aggression between males and females.
Erikson and Erikson (1997) believed that children had the ability of developing at normal stages throughout life, but that these stages of development could easily be altered through environmental factors (p. 134). Therefore, as people experience life the family, parents, friends, community and the greater society consistently has the ability of influencing how the child develops, to include that child's capacity to become aggressive.
Infant children learn gender roles from the time that they are introduced into the world. From their parents girls begin to learn that they are expected to become of secondary importance to males and that they are not allowed to be aggressive in their behavioural patterns. However, infant boys learn that they are supposed to be the superior gender and that because of that superiority they are entitled to be aggressive and seek what they want through patterns of asserting themselves.
The capacity to be aggressive is demonstrated through the types of sporting activities that males are often involved in, to include football and other contact sports. Yet, for females they are expected to be assertive, while at the same time remaining composed and "lady-like".
Deitz (1998) contends that in the modern society the difference between aggressive behavioural patterns of males and females is supported by the inclusion of media images in their lives (p. 425). Through advertising, television programming, movies and video games males learn that they have a right to become aggressive and that females must avoid aggression or be labeled with negative titles that are unacceptable in society.
Graham and Wells (2001) stipulate that the major difference in the male and female aggressive behavioral patterns...
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