Throughout the history of sport there has always been that one player on a team that is known as over aggressive. This sometimes is a mislabel, and the player may just be an assertive player. Football and hockey are two sports, which there is a lot of hitting, and there is the problem of telling who is an aggressive athlete or who is an assertive athlete. Throughout the course of this paper I hope to educate and inform the reader that there is a distinct difference between being aggressive and assertive.
What is aggression? Aggression is the intent to injure someone during an attack or physical activity. For an event or action to be aggressive, it has to be projected towards a living object. Hitting a desk with your fist during frustration is not considered an aggressive act because the desk is not alive and therefore cannot be harmed. In order for the action to be considered aggressive, it must be with the intent to harm the target, which excludes unintended injury that occurs to your opponent or living object. Finally, there must be the thought that the aggression will be successful and that your opponent will be injured during the attack. If the circumstances do not allow for the target to be injured, then the act will not be considered aggressive.
Aggression does not only have to be physical, it can be verbal and mental. If you are verbally abusing someone in sport and it effects them and injures them somehow, .
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than that is also considered an aggressive act. In sport, there are two different types of aggression. There is hostile aggression and there is instrumental aggression. These are not to be confused because they are extremely different:.
Types of Aggression.
Hostile Aggression.
Goal: To injure another human being .
Intent: To make him/her suffer .
Reinforcement: The pain and suffering caused .
This type of aggression is always accompanied by an angry aggressor. .
Example: After being angered by being accidentally hit while sparring, the student purposely strikes the opponent.
Running head: AGGRESSION Aggression Tara Scott Piedmont College Aggression Aggression is a trait that is found in all human beings. ... Aggression can be defined in many ways. ... Aggression is learned directly when one sees another being rewarded for his or her aggression. ... The first and most common form of aggression is instrumental aggression. ... The other form of aggression is known as hostile aggression. ...
To be called assertive is a compliment. ... The Webster's Dictionary defines assertive as "positive; aggressive; and dogmatic."" ... Assertiveness, on the other hand, does not involve attack. ... Self-respect is an example of assertive behaviorism. It has been found that women who are assertive are often labeled as aggressive. ...
Background - Male Social Norms The most common reason why men associate masculinity with assertiveness, control, and power is due in part to the stress that is placed on the idea of a masculine gender role. ... These norms can cause aggression and violence whenever the male feels as though their masculinity is being threatened. ... Common ways that men protect their masculine identity is implemented through violence and aggression. ... Video Games: aggression and competition. ... They questioned if whether the amount of violence or the amount of competition content of the video game was the ca...
Aggression is also a relative construct. ... Negativity is but half of the nature of aggression. Aggression can have very positive results. ... One good aspects of aggressiveness might be ambitiousness or assertiveness, an aggressive person is more likely to get what they need done as opposed to the inactive person. ... Aggression can also be characterized by mentality. ...
Aggression is also a relative construct. ... Negativity is but half of the nature of aggression. Aggression can have very positive results. ... One good aspects of aggressiveness might be ambitiousness or assertiveness, an aggressive person is more likely to get what they need done as opposed to the inactive person. ... Aggression can also be characterized by mentality. ...
Such strategies are aggression, hostile aggression, instrumental aggression and assertiveness. ... Hostile Aggression is the intent to make the victim suffer as part of the goal. ... Usually this aggression is accompanied by anger and winning is no longer important. ... Assertiveness is the use of legitimate physical or verbal abuse to achieve a goal. ... Ethologists also argue that aggression and violence is part of evolution and without violence no species would be able to survive. ...
Yet another weakness would be my assertive attitude. ... Sometimes people mistake my assertiveness for selfishness or even aggression. ... When it comes to family and being a mother I have to be assertive so that things can be done in the correct and timely manner. ... My supervisors expect me to be an assertive decision maker. ...
In one study, researcher Beverly Fagot observed and responded to the findings of what happens when teachers observe "assertive acts" and "communicative acts" of 12- to 16-month-old children. ... What surprised her about her findings was that the teacher responded more often to assertive boys than to less-assertive boys and more to talkative girls than to the less-talkative girls. ... This includes large motor activity (jumping, climbing, running), play with sex-typed toys (trucks for boys, dolls for girls), aggression, and verbal skills. ...
Barta, the foremost cause of aggression is the students" rejection of acceptance. ... Society, culture, and biological factors play a huge role in the students" aggression. ... "Elevated levels of male sex hormones testosterone and depressed levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin can transform assertive behavior into aggressive behavior"(Biehler 441). ...