%0 Journal Article
%T Aggressive Coping Strategy of Adolescents in Social Conflict Situation. Analysis of Personality and Family Determinants
%A Borecka-Biernat, Danuta
%J Developmental Psychology
%V 2018
%R 10.4467/20843879PR.18.020.9949
%N Volume 23, Issue 4
%P 25-40
%K adolescents, self-esteem, locus of control, emotional reactions, cognitive evaluation, parental attitudes, behavior modeling, aggressive strategy, confl ict.
%@ 1895-6297
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/psychologia-rozwojowa/article/strategia-agresywnego-radzenia-sobie-mlodziezy-dorastajacej-w-sytuacji-konfliktu-spolecznego-analiza-osobowosciowych-i-rodzinnych-uwarunkowan
%X 
	The aim of the study was to search for the personality and family predictors of an aggressive coping strategy of adolescents in the social confl ict situation. The following tools were applied: Danuta Borecka-Biernat’s Questionnaire to Study Strategies for Coping with a Social Conflict Situation by Adolescents (KSMK), Stress Evaluation Questionnaire (KOS) by Dorota Włodarczyk and Kazimierz Wrześniewski, Morris Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), Questionnaire to Study a Sense of Control (KBPK) by Grażyna Krasowicz and Anna Kurzyp-Wojnarska, Three-Factor State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (TISCO) by Charles Spielberg and K. Wrześniewski, Parental Attitudes Scale (SPR) by Mieczysław Plopa, and Questionnaire to Investigate Strategies for Coping with a Social Confl ict Situation by Parents in the Perception of a Child (SRwSK) by Danuta Borecka-Biernat. The empirical research was carried out in the junior high schools and comprised 893 adolescent (468 girls and 425 boys) aged 13–15. The research showed that judging the confl ict as a threat, a higher evaluation of the physical characteristics of a young person, a strong belief in the infl uence of others on the positive and negative effects of the events, and the response with anger in interpersonal situations posing a threat to ‘I’ coincide with an aggressive coping strategy of adolescents in the social confl ict situation. Moreover, the analysis of the results has shown that the adolescents’ aggressive way of reacting to emotional tension, which arises in the social confl ict situation, is shaped by the parents’ inadequate educational attitude of the emotional distance towards their adolescent child, as well as by the parents’ aggressive pattern of reacting to the confl ict.