Physical exercise and aggressive behavior among youths
Aggression is one of the most commonplace and ruinous conduct to which youngsters may be susceptible to. At the same time, adolescents are at a specified risk of ending up as either the authors of aggression or fall victim to harassment and abuse from bullying. School is where most youths spend most of their time, and as such, aggressive acts are most prevalent. Through research, this hostile behavior has been shown to change considerably with age (Park et al.). Substantial sex-selective differences in terms of the degree of and variations in destructive behavior over time have also been identified through data collection. Most of these researches construe that young males who don’t stay with their families and those who reside in urbanized settlements have a higher likelihood of engaging in scuffles. In girls as well as boys, the engagement in aggravated behavior is higher among one’s involved in team sports.
Hostile behavior among adolescents can be swayed by a range of factors in the educational environment. Classes in physical exercise and off-the-program sports activities play a big part in influencing teenage behavior, among other factors. Teenagers who partake in Physical Education curricula and athletic activities with their agemates may have a better chance of advancing self-discipline and capabilities of monitoring their destructive behaviors. Moreover, leisure fulfillment may also be bound to decreased levels of rebellious behaviors like crime or bullying.
In the wake of this public health nightmare, particularly among youths, aggression can be distinguished as a multifarious challenge that has a close interrelationship with interactive characteristics, financial, and socially oriented inequalities (de Rezende et al.). In its various expressions, violence arising from aggression gives rise to damages in psychological and physical fitness that is relatable to dropping out of school, underperformance, suicidal and homicidal behaviors. Health issues include migraine, gastralgia, back spasms, miserable, peevishness, nervousness, sleeping pattern irregularities, and dizziness. Nevertheless, there’s a lack of publications and research on intersocial physical aggression that tries to identify societal and demographic factors coupled with the manifestation of physical hostility in the general public.
Physical activities contribute significantly to reducing the extent of both physical and oral abuse, and they assist the youth in attaining clean-living and rectifying bad habits. Over time, physical education has been a useful instrument in developing the physical strength and abilities in adolescents. PE has also been viewed as a means through which the teenagers manage free and boundless self-expression. Such leisure activities help them escape communal and domestic problems and dispensing with the energy and vigor of youth. Bandura has confirmed this view.
Jean Piaget (2001) correspondingly emphasizes the fact that PE and athletic activities help the youth to obtain a sense of fellowship, fulfillment, and satisfaction. They also aid them in reaching equilibrium between daily routine and leisure. In terms of psychology and socialization, sporting activities could contribute to adolescents’ adaptation within their families, communities, and country.
It is agreeable that to indoctrinate ethical values, we ought to exploit the free time adolescents have by performing beneficial activities to minimize the psychosocial strains. (Young et al. 2014). Furthermore, most surveys highlight that youth engagement in athletic activities reduces their tendency to involve themselves in crime, helping them adopt upright values. In view of the foregoing, it might be concluded that the great deal of attention displayed by youngsters for physical exercises is worth being examined and researched extensively and thoroughly. Physical education facilitates them in setting and achieving goals. It has also played a key role in nurturing strong and moral relations among adolescents and the general populace. Besides, sports activities substantially facilitate physical aggression mitigation through the adolescent’s practice of self-regulation. In conclusion, it can also be stated that sports have a major influence on teaching young people how to observe and obey the law.
Works Cited
de Rezende, Leandro Fornias Machado et al. “Sociodemographic and Behavioral Factors Associated With Physical Activity In Brazilian Adolescents.” BMC Public Health, vol 14, no. 1, 2014. Springer Science and Business Media LLC, doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-485.
Young K, Okada C. Sport, Social Development, and Peace. UK: Emerald Group Publishing; 2014. p. 119.
Park, Sanghyun et al. “Effects of Physical Education, Extracurricular Sports Activities, And Leisure Satisfaction on Adolescent Aggressive Behavior: A Latent Growth Modeling Approach.” PLOS ONE, vol 12, no. 4, 2017, p. e0174674. Public Library Of Science (Plos), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0174674.
Ducreta JJ. Jean Piaget and Cognitive Sciences. France: Intellectica; 2001. p. 209-29.