IDENTIFICATION OF CAUSES OF TEACHERS’ AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR AT SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL

Abstract

The major aim of the present research was to investigate the causes of aggression among the teachers at secondary school level. The objectives of the research were to identify the aggressive behaviour of teachers and its effect on taught’ learning and to investigate causes that lead to aggressive behaviour of teacher. The study was conducted on 600 SSTs and 150 Head teachers (Male and Female). A questionnaire was formulated in Urdu for the convenience of the respondents. The results revealed that physical, social, psychological, emotional, educational, and administrative elements were the major causes of aggression. The research was descriptive in nature. An extensive review of related literature was done keeping in mind the causes of aggressive behaviour and objectives of the research.  The data were obtained through questionnaires and were tabulated, analyzed and interpreted. The data were collected through questionnaires analyzed on the opinion of respondents through chi square method. The questions were described on five point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree. The majority of teachers and head teachers agreed. Percentage and Chi-square tests were conducted to test whether responses of teacher on five-point Liker scale were equally distributed or not. The results of χ2, p=0.000 Shows the results of causes of aggressive behaviour of the teachers.