The Comparison of Self-Control Capacity and Emotional Self-Regulation in Aggressive and Non-Aggressive Students in Sixth Grade Elementary School of Bandar Anzali

One of the important reasons for the formation of aggression in students is the lack of self-control and emotional self-regulation. The aim of this study was to compare the self-control capacity and emotional self-regulation of aggressive and non-aggressive sixth grade elementary students in Bandar Anzali. The research method was causal-comparative (post-factor). The statistical population of the study included all sixth grade elementary students in Bandar Anzali in the second semester of the academic year 2020 with an approximate number of 950 people. The research sample also included 120 people (60 aggressive students and 60 non-aggressive students) who according to the background of research related to this field by Clusters random sampling method were selected and They completed Tanjani et al.chr('39')s Self-Control (2004) and March Emotional Self-Regulation (Salehi Morkani, 2006) Questionnaires. Data were analyzed using independent t-test and multivariate analysis of variance. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the mean between the mean self-control capacity of the two groups of aggressive and non-aggressive students (P<0.01). Also, there is a significant difference between the mean of emotional self-regulation and the components of cognitive, behavioral, situation focus, focus on emotion change, decrease in negative emotion and increase in positive emotion between aggressive and non-aggressive students (P<0.01). Based on this, it can be concluded that aggressive students have lower levels of self-control capacity and emotional self-regulation than non-aggressive students.