Self-esteem and its relationship to aggressive behavior among Jordanian university students, a comparison study between practitioners and non-practitioners of sports activity

Abstract

AbstractKey words: self-esteem, aggressive behavior, college students, sports activityThe study aimed to determine the degree of self-assessment and aggressive behavior of the Jordanian university students, in addition to knowledge of the relationship between self-esteem and aggressive behavior in its three dimensions.The study sample consisted of (448) students from four government universities (Jordan, Yarmouk., Muta and Balqa). The study used Morris Rosenberg’s measure of self-esteem, which consists of 10 paragraphs, and the scale, prepared by Abdullah Suleiman and Mohammed Nabil Abdul Hamid, to measure aggressive in its three dimensions, the scale consists of (39) items.The study found that self-esteem and aggressive behavior estimate came moderately among practitioners and non-practitioners. There is a negative relationship statistically significant indicate that the more self-esteem increased the least aggression and that this relationship has been achieved moderately.The degree of aggression among non-practicing members of the sports activity comes of high degree in both dimensions of outright aggression and tendency to aggression, while it is moderate in the implicit aggression.