A study of aggression and self Confidence among the different disciplines of College Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare aggression and self confidence level between the students of science, physical education and commerce, of Post Graduate Government College, Chandigarh. The subjects for this study were randomly selected. A total of 90 students (30 from Science, 30 Physical Education and 30 Commerce) were selected as a subject for this study. To assess the self-confidence of the students, Agnihotri’s Self-confidence Inventory (ASCI) developed by Rekha was used. To measure aggression of male students used the aggression scale constructed by Dr. Roma Pal and Dr. Tasneem Naqvi (1980) was administered. One way ANOVA test was performed for comparison among groups at the 0.05 level of significance. The results indicate that the significant difference was found among different discipline of college male students in relation to self-confidence (p<0.05). On the basis of findings it was concluded that the mean score of aggression of science students (89.17) is more than the physical education and commerce students and the mean score of self-confidence of physical education students (27.57) is more than the science and commerce students.