摘要：The aim of this study was to examine the level of social aggression among primary school pupils in relation to their age, gender and school location (rural/urban). The subjects were fourth and eighth grade pupils from the Primary School Okučani in Okučani (N=117) and Juraj Habdelić Primary School in Velika Gorica (N=97). For the purposes of the research, a questionnaire on social aggression consisting of a scale with 10 particles was developed. As the arithmetic means and modes had low values, according to scale polarization, the level of social aggression is low. Through factor analysis, two factors were determined: exclusion and mocking; which were used in further processing. Considering that the distribution was not a normal one, the results of the Mann Whitney test indicated that there was an age difference in both factors of social aggression among pupils, i.e. eighth-grade pupils manifest social aggression more often than fourth-grade pupils. Gender differences in social aggression were not found to be statistically significant. The results indicated that there is a difference between pupils in rural and urban schools on both factors of social aggression. Pupils in rural schools showed a significantly higher level of social aggression in comparison to pupils in urban schools.
关键词：aggressive behaviour; peer groups; primary school; social competence
