Explaining the role of competition in predicting youth aggression: A mediating role of family interactions

The purpose of this study is to explain the role of competition in predicting the level of youth aggression with the mediating role of family interactions. The standard questionnaire of Maxwell and Morris (2007) was used to measure competitiveness, the Bass and Perry questionnaire (1992) was used for aggression, and the 10-item questionnaire of David Elson and Howard Bars (1985) was used to assess the mediating role of family interactions. . The validity and reliability of this questionnaire has been confirmed in this and similar studies. The results show that all sub-hypotheses of the research along with the first main hypothesis are confirmed with 95% confidence due to the significance level lower than 0.05; Therefore, according to the results of this study, the relationship between the role of competition in the dimensions of satisfaction due to better performance, desire to win, motivation to try, feeling satisfied with doing homework and preferring to do harder work with predicting youth aggression There is meaning. Healthy competition, if put in its path, can prevent aggression among male adolescents, and family interactions have not been able to reduce or moderate aggression created during competition.