APPETITIVE AGGRESSION AS PREDICTOR OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE AMONG UNDERGRADUATES OF CHUKWUEMEKA ODUMEGWU OJUKWU UNIVERSITY, IGBARIAM CAMPUS, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The need to identify some of the factors which can lead to difficulties some of our undergraduates have in their interactions and relationships with others especially in the social environment like the university system led to investigate if one of these factors known as appetitive aggression will predict social competence among undergraduates. A sample of 200 students from two hundred level of Department of Psychology, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam campus, Anambra State, Nigeria participated in the study. Their age ranged from 18 to 25 years, with a mean age of 21.5 and a standard deviation of 1.38. They were administered Appetitive Aggression Scale and Social Skills and Attitude Scale. Multiple Linear Regression statistics was used to analyze the three hypotheses postulated. Result revealed that appetitive aggression predicted social competence among undergraduates, gender predicted social competence among undergraduates and appetitive aggression and gender jointly predicted social competence among undergraduates. Accordingly, the assistance of professional counsellors should be sort after to curtail the menace of appetitive aggression on the social competence of our undergraduates.