title: Aggression in adolescents: characteristics and treatment.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Vulnerability of young people and frustration of their basic biological, emotional, cognitive and social needs can induce a series of psycho-pathological manifestations, including aggression.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Aim of this study is to examine the manifestations of aggressiveness in young people and to establish the difference between aggressive responses of two age groups; adolescents aged 16-19 years and older adolescents aged 20-26 years.
  
  
  METHODS
  The sample consists of 100 young people aged 16-19 years (46 adolescents) and 20-26 years (54 adolescents). For the purposes of this study, we have constructed a questionnaire in which we entered the data obtained on the basis of a standard psychiatric examination, auto- and hetero-anamnesis data, and data obtained using the standard battery of psychological tests.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Statistically significant association was found between verbal aggression and physical aggression (p = 0.002), verbal aggression and suicide attempts (p = 0.02), verbal aggression and substance abuse (p = 0.009), verbal aggression and low frustration tolerance (LFT) (p = 0.007), suicide attempt and LFT (p = 0.052). The younger group was significantly more verbally aggressive compared to the older group (p = 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Verbal aggression, which was significantly associated with physical aggression, suicide attempts, substance abuse and LFT, indicates the need for timely interventions for the prevention of more serious and malignant forms of aggression.
authors.affiliation: Special Hospital for Mental Disorders "Dr. Laza Lazarević", Belgrade, Serbia. rristic@cepelin.net
authors.forename: Radmila
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ristić-Dimitrijević
authors.forename: Dijana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lazić
authors.forename: Milutin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nenadović
authors.forename: Katarina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Djokić-Pjescić
authors.forename: Nikolaos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Klidonas
authors.forename: Vesna
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Stefanović
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D055815:Young Adult