ROLE OF COGNITIVE EMOTION REGULATION STRATEGIES AND FAMILY STRUCTURE AS DETERMINANTS OF AGGRESSION IN PAKISTANI ADOLESCENTS

While cognitive emotion regulation strategies are viewed as mental approaches which impact emotionality and decision making of individuals, they also mechanisms for controlling the level aggression. This purpose present study was to assess role well family structure with regard impacting aggression in Pakistani adolescents. A sample 300 (150 belonging joint 150 nuclear families) adolescents (aged 13-18 years) recruited from schools urban rural areas Pakistan. The participants completed questionnaires assessing strategies, structure, levels. SPSS 21.0 associated interventions were used data analysis. reappraisal refocus on planning had a significant negative association physical verbal However, emotional including self-blame, others blame, catastrophizing other disruptive positively It found that raised system more rumination, catastrophizing, blame along higher levels hostility while systems acceptance, positive refocusing, putting into perspective having emphasis further allowed them minimize their Keywords: aggression, hostility, anger