УДК 616.89
INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGGRESSIVENESS AND ANXIETY OF PERSONALITY
Alesya A. Pletneva,
3rd year student of the specialty psychology of service activity, the faculty of Psychology, National Research University "BelSU", Belgorod, Russia
Alexander V. Markov
scientific supervisor, senior lecturer
Foreign languages department NRU BSU
Annotation: aggressiveness in personality behavior mainly brings significant harm to a person, because the aggressor, as a rule, does not want to offend another person, he does it because of intrapersonal conflict, low self-esteem. This problem is very serious, because often the aggressor is perceived only as a pest, without noticing the deep psychological traumas of a person. The state of anxiety often torments many people and does not allow them to enjoy life to the fullest. Many psychologists claim that anxiety originates deep in childhood, when a person has a dysfunctional psychological atmosphere in the family.
Keywords:aggressiveness, aggression, anxiety, personality,orientation, psyche.
Currently, aggression in humans is one of the most significant problems of modern psychology. Demonstrative and defiant behavior towards other people has intensified. Crime is greatly increasing in our world. On the basis of social contradictions, intergroup and interpersonal conflicts arise. In addition, the problem of aggressiveness and anxiety has been little studied theoretically.
Questions related to human aggressiveness are touched upon in many psychological studies. A person experiencing aggression becomes an anxious, withdrawn, apathetic person. Anxiety is an individual's tendency to experience anxiety, which is characterized by a low threshold for anxiety, one of the key parameters of individual differences.
The presence of an extremely high concentration of aggression and anxiety in people makes the problem of research one of the most pressing issues of the modern world.
Fig.1. Types of aggression
There is no doubt that anxiety affects human behavior, in which his psyche develops psychological defense mechanisms, aggression also applies to them.
Thus, Z. Freud revealed the relationship between anxiety and aggressiveness. He defined aggressiveness as a defense mechanism in people, namely with the presence of anxiety, regardless of situational or personal.
In their works, R. Baron and D. Richardson studied the occurrence of aggression during the transfer of arousal. That is, anxiety, whether it is a state or a personality trait, causes this arousal.
A.M. Parishioners found that there are such defense mechanisms as avoidance and attack. The attack is exceptionally aggressive. She studied anxious teenagers and found that they are more likely to have aggressive behavior than adolescents with low levels of anxiety.
Only twenty years later, L. Berkowitz noted that the propensity for aggression in an individual is directly related to the expected punishment or disapproval for aggression.
In his empirical research, A. Bandura stated that fear or anxiety deter aggression, that is, it is reasonable to assume that people who are prone to such reactions most acutely feel danger, often show less aggression.
Fig.2. The main characteristics of anxiety
Many modern researchers interpret the meaning of anxiety in the genesis of aggressiveness in different ways. Depending on the situation, anxiety can both block aggression and encourage it. Clinical observations show that the relationship between aggression and anxiety can manifest itself in such situations:
1. Aggressiveness is associated with anxiety caused by the expectation of aggression against oneself, which is a projection of personal hostile feelings.
2. Aggressiveness is a consequence of anxiety and fear of being rejected and left alone. Despite the fact that aggression is directed at persons from whom the possibility of painful isolation and anxiety emanates.
3. Hostility and aggression act as a way of protection in a situation of increased anxiety.
The relationship between aggressiveness and anxiety of the individual is not definitively established. Some studies show that there is no statistically significant interaction of these phenomena.
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