THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACADEMIC STRESS AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

Aggresslveness ln adolescents causes varlous negatlve adverse effects both on the adolescents themselves and the surroundlng envlronment such as decreased mental health, lncreased stress, decreased academlc achlevement, mental lsolatlon to create poor soclal lnteractlons ln the communlty. Therefore, thls study trles to correlate academlc stress wlth aggresslveness behavlor ln adolescents wlth the research populatlon belng students of SMON 59 Surabaya. The sampllng technlque used ln thls study was purposlve sampllng technlque. The research lnstrument used was a questlonnalre uslng an academlc stress scale and an adolescent aggresslveness scale. Data analysls was carrled out uslng the Spearman s'Rho non-parametrlc correlatlon test technlque uslng the Statlstlcal Pakage For Soclal Sclence For Wlndows (SPSS) program. The results of thls study obtalned a correlatlon coefflclent of 0.858 wlth a p value = 0.000 (p <0.05). There ls a posltlve relatlonshlp, so the hlgher the academlc stress, the hlgher the aggresslveness ln adolescents. The concluslon of thls study ls that adolescents wlth hlgh levels of academlc stress have a tendency to behave aggresslvely.