Studentų emocijų valdymo ir perkeltosios agresijos sąsaja

Abstract

Straipsnyje aptariami emocijų valdymo ir perkeltosios agresijos reiškiniai, pristatomos įvairių autorių teorinės nuostatos dėl šių ir jiems artimų reiškinių. Perkeltosios agresijos reiškinys dar nedaug tyrinėtas, bet labai aktualus socialinio ugdymo, smurto prevencijos srityse. Pristatomas emocijų valdymo sunkumų ir perkeltosios agresijos sąsajos tyrimas studentų imtyje. Pasirinkti tiriamieji, kurių būsima profesija daugiau ar mažiau tiesiogiai susijusi su kitų asmenų agresija, nusikalstamu elgesiu

Despite various preventive measures, studies of aggression’s determinants remain relevant even today. Studies of displaced aggression may help for understanding of such incidents, when the objective reasons for aggression acts are difficult to explain. One of the major factors of the aggression phenomenon is emotion regulation (McNulty, Hellmuth, 2008). There is little research on emotion regulation and displaced aggression in Lithuania. Thus, the main goal of this study was to make a review of the works of foreign researchers’ in this field and assess how the emotion regulation is associated with displaced aggression in students’ sample. During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase in research on emotion regulation. J. J. Gross (1998) describes emotion regulation as a process where a person makes an influence to his emotions, emotional experience and expression. Other authors also define emotion regulation as an emotional experience and expression control with particular emphasis on the control of negative emotions and suppression of emotional stimulation (Garner, Spears, 2000). The studies of K. L. Gratz and L. Roemer (2004) enable identification of factors which were called difficulties in emotion regulation. Those factors are non-awareness and non-understanding of emotion, non-acceptance of it, an inability to control impulsive behaviour and act accordingly to achieve the goal experiencing negative emotions, and inability to adapt emotional reactions to the situation. Most studies analyze the possibilities of emotion reduction, because it is better related with the difficulties of human functioning than reinforcement. [...]