The analysis of the relationship between interpersonal cognitive distortions and aggreesion responses of high school students

The goal of this master?s thesis is to display the relationship between interpersonal cognitive distortions and agsression responses of high school students and to determine if how interpersonal cognitive distortions predict aggression level.The subjects of this study were 843 students who have been studying in 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grads of high schools in Gaziantep. The data were analyzed and evaluate using Pearson?s Product Moment Correlation Coefficients, two-way Anova and multiple regression analysis.In this study, significant positive correlations were found between interpersonal cognitive distortions and aggression. It has been found out that the students having high interpersonal cognitive distortion level has higher points of all subscales of aggression scale than students have low interpersonal cognitive distortion level.According to the results of multiple regression analysis, it is indicated that interpersonal cognitive distortions subscales points were significant predictor for student?s aggression points.