A Study of Aggression and Typology

Abstract

The article refers to study the forms, vectors and intensity of aggression in a typological context. In order to search typology we consumed the typology of extroversion-introversion theoretically considered by K. Jung and experimentally processed by H. Eysenck. Introversion-extroversion is a conƟ nuum where each person is located on the specifi c point of the scale. There are 7 groups allocated on the scale: typical extrovert, strong extrovert, weak extrovert, mixed type, weak introvert, strong introvert, typical introvert.

In order to study aggression we consumed Buss and Dark searching instrument which studies diff erent forms, intensity and vectors of aggression. Among 8 forms of aggression hetero-aggression forms are the following: physical, indirect, verbal aggression and negaƟ vism, auto-aggression forms are: irritation, resentment, jealousy and guilt feeling.

According to our interest, the hypothesis of our research is the following: extrovert is pronounced outdoor-oriented type, he/she may be characterized with out-directed (hetero) aggression and the aggression vector of an introvert, which is an inside-oriented type, may be directed inside (auto-aggression).

The results of our research partly justify the following hypothesis. All forms of hetero-aggression is characteristic of extraversion: physical, indirect, verbal aggression and negativism. T-test and dispersion analysis revealed the difference between the types. Correlation analysis also showed the following tendency.

Although the auto-aggression forms irritation and guilt feeling are characteristic of introversion, we received statistically important difference only in one group between the types according to irritation in introverts. The difference was not important for guilt feeling. The high level of guilt feeling is characteristic for both types.