Personal and contextual variables that affect the child's violent behavior

Abstract

Personal and contextual variables that affect the child's violent behaviour. The aggressive behavior of children and adolescents is favored by a number of risk variables, also known as predictive variables. The accumulation of these variables, over the history of child development, may predispose a pattern of behavior more aggressive than it hinders adaptation to their social environment, family and school. The variables involved in the manifestation of the aggressive behavior of children may be manifold and are classified as personal, family, school and environmental issues. Thus, our aim has been to check the involvement of some variables in developing a more aggressive behaviour, potentially violent and antisocial and criminal youth. To that end, we present the results have been produced from a research broader, whose sample is represented by 1800 students from different municipalities of Murcia, with an age range between 11 and 16. Among the most outstanding results, we get that certain variables personal, social and educational, seem to favour antisocial and criminal behavior among young people.

Key words: Aggression, antisocial, criminal, risk variables, children, adolescents.