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Research Proposal: Teen Agression

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school students has been studied from several different perspectives, but it appears that there has been no attempt to relate grade expectations with aggression levels. In light of the  increase in the incidence of violent events within high schools, the possibility that grade performance could have effect on the problem makes it worthy of study.  The proposed study will take the form of an observational study in which high school students are manipulated into believing that their performance is less than they  expect it to be. We propose investigating poor grades as the independent variable and using varying aggression levels as the dependent variable.  The hypothesis that we propose to investigate is that there is a direct correlation between poor grades and aggressive behavior. Literature Review In  many respects, stress has been blamed for much aggressive behavior noted among high school students. The stress need not necessarily be directly connected with school, though several researchers have  sought to discover such a link. International studies of high school students and achievement testing results consistently rank Japanese students academically  higher than American students. Much has been written about the elevated stress levels that Japanese students experience. They also have been found to exhibit less aggressive behavior.  Crystal, Chen, Fuligni, Stevenson, Hsu, Ko, Kitamura and Kimura (1994) investigated this supposed connection, but found surprising results. The researchers investigated "Psychological maladjustment and its relation to academic achievement,  parental expectations, and parental satisfaction were studied in a cross-national sample of 1,386 American, 1,633 Chinese, and 1,247 Japanese eleventh-grade students. 5 indices of maladjustment included measures of stress, depressed