ANALISIS COMPARATIVO ESTACIONAL DE LA CONDUCTA AGRESIVA DE ESCOLARES DE UN ESTABLECIMIENTO EDUCACIONAL DE LA REGIÓN METROPOLITANA, SANTIAGO DE CHILE

Abstract

During last years several agonistic (aggressive) behavior displays have been carried out in our country, between kids and young students of primary and secondary school. The modem ethological view applied to agonistic behavioral research is a key factor, because may give a necessary knowledge to obtain a better understanding of this problem. In this paper we report
the results of a study developed in a school placed in Metropolitan Región (Santiago, Chile), which contains students with both, violence and drugs problems. The goal of this research was compare both, frequency and intensity of aggressive interactions between students of secondary educational levels, throughout of seasonal periods, in order to determinate possible seasonal
changes related to agonistic behavior. The main results show an increasing of the frequency of aggressive interactions during first weeks of spring. Moreover, this difference was higher compared with autumn-winter period. By the other hand, the frequency of attack was higher in males than females. This pattem could be due to both biological and cultural component, where physic aggression between males is more frequent than between females. It is important keep in mind that
aggressive behavior is a multifactorial phenomenon, which depend on physiological factors, like regulation of negative emotional States, among other causes. The effect of exogenous factors on agonistic interaction is important too, and will be studied in order to improve the understanding of such phenomenon.