Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory For Children & Teenagers

As an individual grows up, their needs for self-determination, ways of expressing emotions and achieving goals change. Children and adolescent's hostility and negative actions are often caused by the desire to stand out, to raise their status in the eyes of others, the inability to cooperate, or experienced stress.

The more the child suppresses their ambitions, desires and resentments, the stronger the feeling of loneliness, negative perception of the world around them, and apathy grow. Complete permissiveness, as a rule, leads to an increase in hostility and aggressiveness. Even for adults it can be hard to find a middle ground between an aggressive pursuit of a goal and indecisiveness in achieving the desired result; for a child's psyche, the choice of a behavior model and emotional control is much more difficult.

This test is a modified version of the Buss-Durkee hostility inventory made by the psychologist G. Zuckerman specifically to assess the level of hostility in children and adolescents.

Its result will make it possible to evaluate how negatively the child perceives others' behavior, whether it generates resentment and anger in them, and how well they manage to control these emotions.