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Aggression and Assertiveness

 

            
             Throughout the history of sport there has always been that one player on a team that is known as over aggressive. This sometimes is a mislabel, and the player may just be an assertive player. Football and hockey are two sports, which there is a lot of hitting, and there is the problem of telling who is an aggressive athlete or who is an assertive athlete. Throughout the course of this paper I hope to educate and inform the reader that there is a distinct difference between being aggressive and assertive.
             What is aggression? Aggression is the intent to injure someone during an attack or physical activity. For an event or action to be aggressive, it has to be projected towards a living object. Hitting a desk with your fist during frustration is not considered an aggressive act because the desk is not alive and therefore cannot be harmed. In order for the action to be considered aggressive, it must be with the intent to harm the target, which excludes unintended injury that occurs to your opponent or living object. Finally, there must be the thought that the aggression will be successful and that your opponent will be injured during the attack. If the circumstances do not allow for the target to be injured, then the act will not be considered aggressive.
             Aggression does not only have to be physical, it can be verbal and mental. If you are verbally abusing someone in sport and it effects them and injures them somehow, .
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             than that is also considered an aggressive act. In sport, there are two different types of aggression. There is hostile aggression and there is instrumental aggression. These are not to be confused because they are extremely different:.
             Types of Aggression.
             Hostile Aggression.
             Goal: To injure another human being .
             Intent: To make him/her suffer .
             Reinforcement: The pain and suffering caused .
             This type of aggression is always accompanied by an angry aggressor. .
             Example: After being angered by being accidentally hit while sparring, the student purposely strikes the opponent.


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