Aggressive teenage behavior: myth or reality?

The psychological features of the psychology of undergrowth are considered. Among them, aggression as a characteristic model of behavior of representatives of adolescence is identified and analyzed. The data of a pilot psychodiagnostic psychological study of the motives of aggression of adolescents are presented. It is shown that self-affirmation and self-defense are leading among them. An analysis of the main types of aggression is given. The idea of controlling aggressive behavior of adolescents using the data of psychodiagnostic studies in the interests of preventing and stopping its socially dangerous manifestations and healthy psychological development of students and their adaptation to the conditions of a competitive society is put forward.