Psychosocial Predictors of Aggressive Conflict Behavior: Gender Differences

The study aimed at answering the following research question: does the sex of the youth differentiate the predictors of aggression strategy in social conflict situations? The empirical research was focused on personality and family conditions of the aggressive strategy for coping with a social conflict situation by young people with particular emphasis placed on the role of self-esteem, a sense of placing control, a kind of cognitive evaluation of a social conflict situation, the level and content of emotions as well as educational attitudes of parents and a model of parental response to a social conflict situation. The stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that out of twenty seven independent variables, which were introduced into the regression model, nine were of significance in explaining the strategies of aggression by girls, five of them were significant for boys (four of them were the same, and one was different variable).