Aggression In Children

Introduction

Aggression is a form of social interaction, which is overt and often associated to be harmful that consist of intention of causing either damage or unpleasantness to another person (West, 2013). The harm of this kind can either exist in physical or psychological form. Its occurrence can be as a result of with or without provocation. The existence of blocked goals among humans can easily lead to aggression. This is a social issue among children, which often result in harming the society, community, families and themselves. Children that exhibit such behaviours are most likely to become teenagers who are severely affected by problems associated with aggression, substance abuse, and mental health issues. In their adulthood, the situation

One factor that foster aggression in children includes influences from the environment, for example, stress (Groh et al., 2014). Environment influence is associated with increased reliance of the child towards aggression as a strategy to cope. Exposure to acts of violence is also a factor to aggressive behaviour in children where many people tend to think that the children are too young to understand what is going on. It is estimated that millions of children do witness various forms of domestic violence every year (Kanne & Mazurek, 2010). Various literature have identified impacts of this exposure to children. However, little study has been undertaken on what long-term effects that a child is expected to have during his/her early years of life (Eyberg, Nelson & Boggs,

This in practice makes the children with such behaviour have little or no friends as compared to non-aggressive children. Aggression also raises the chances at which the children will slip into bullying behaviour (Gentile, Coyne & Walsh, 2010). Bullying complicates the relationship of an aggressive child to his or her peers and significantly increases the risk associated with social problems during their adolescent and adulthood stage. Aggressive impulses among the affected children are expected to occur occasionally, hence raising the likelihood of that child landing in trouble during such impulses (Eyberg, Nelson & Boggs, 2008). It depends on how a child is able to control such aggressive impulses. These impulses include fighting other children, bullying others, being temperamental and finding it difficult to control both their physical and psychological behaviour. School life of both the child with aggressive behaviour and his or her victim is affected as a result of aggression (Fearon, Bakermans-Kranenburg, van IJzendoorn, Lapsley & Roisman, 2010). Within the school environment, children with aggressive behaviour are highly likely to find it difficult to interact appropriately with others within the environment. Aggressive behaviour such as fighting and bullying other children within the environment can easily