WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Intesar K. Younis*, Yasir Abdulnasir Abdulmawjood

ABSTRACT

Background: Any action intended to cause direct or indirect harm to another person is considered aggression. A child's behavior is mostly influenced by their family; most young children take up bad behaviors from adults, which tends to worsen the child's behavior over time. Due to the fact that many young children have no parents or only one parent due to divorce or death, this circumstance encouraged research on aggressiveness. Objective: To demonstrate how the presence of parents affects the rate of aggressiveness among teenagers in Mosul. Materials and methods: Adolescents in Mosul who live with both parents or who miss one or both of them were included in a cross-sectional research. Stratified random sampling was used to choose the sample. The study included a total of 1000 adolescents in secondary schools, ages 11 to 21. Face-to-face interviews were used to gather data, and the Aggression-Problem Behavior Frequency Scale questionnaire was used. P values greater than 0.05 were deemed statistically significant when using the chi square test. Results: In the study sample, there were 916 (91.6%) violent kids. Adolescents who lived with single or no parents had considerably higher levels of aggressiveness (97.6%, 89.9%, respectively). Aggression and being parentless were statistically significantly correlated (p=0.000). Conclusions: Teenagers exhibited significant levels of hostility, and one of the contributing causes to this behavior was the absence of parents.