Family climate and aggressiveness between high school students from Metropolitan Lima

Authors

  • María Matalinares Calvet Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Carlos Arenas I. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Lidia Sotelo L. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Gloria Díaz A. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Alejandro Dioses C. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Juan Yaringaño L. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Raúl Muratta E. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Cecilia Pareja F. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Rina Tipacti T. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/rinvp.v13i1.3740

Keywords:

students, family social climate, aggressiveness

Abstract

The present research work started with an objective of establish if it existed or not relation between family climate and aggressiveness in students of 4th and 5th of high school from Metropolitan Lima. The sample comprised 237 students of 4th and 5th of high school level, of both sexes, with aged between 14 and 18 years, from different educational state centers of Lima to whom were applied the Hostility Inventory of Buss-Durkee, proposed for A. H. Buss and A. Durkee in 1957, adapted for Peru by Carlos Reyes R. in 1987 and the Family Environment Scale (FES) by R.H. Moos, B.S. Moos and E.J. Trickett whose standardization was realized by Cesar Ruiz. The results indicate that the variables family climate and aggressiveness are correlated. Besides, the results about different subtests of the Family Environment Scale show a correlation between the dimension Relation of Family Environment Scale with the subscales Hostility and Verbal Aggressiveness. There was not a relation between the dimension Development of the Family Environment Scale and the subscales of the Hostility Inventory. There was significant differences on genre in high school students about Family Environment Scale, particularly in the dimension Stability between males and females. The aggressiveness of the students also show significant differences on the genre in the subscale of physical aggressiveness between males and females.

Author Biography

  • María Matalinares Calvet, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
    Docente principal de la Facultad de Psicología de la UNMSM.

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Published

2010-07-15

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Investigaciones

How to Cite

Matalinares Calvet, M., Arenas I., C., Sotelo L., L., Díaz A., G., Dioses C., A., Yaringaño L., J., Muratta E., R., Pareja F., C., & Tipacti T., R. (2010). Family climate and aggressiveness between high school students from Metropolitan Lima. Revista De Investigación En Psicología, 13(1), 109-128. https://doi.org/10.15381/rinvp.v13i1.3740