Consumo de alcohol y su relación con la agresividad en adolescentes de secundaria

Introduction: alcohol consumption is a health problem that impacts negatively in biopsychosocial well-being of people and may favor the appearance of aggression. Objective: determine alcohol consumption (frequency and type of consumption) and aggressiveness in middle school adolescents. Methods: a correlational descriptive study was conducted in 259 students of high School in Monterrey, Mexico. A personal and alcohol consumption data card was applied as well as the AUDIT questionnaire and the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) by Buss and Perry (1992). Results: showed that 122 adolescents have consumed alcohol some time in life, of which 57.7% presented hazardous consumption and 28.9% dependence consumption. The mean for general aggression scale was 40.3 and the anger was the type of aggression with the higher mean score (M = 42.0). Also, it was identified that general aggression correlates with hazardous alcohol consumption (rs = .213, p = .036) and dependent consumption (rs = .209, p = .040); physical aggression were also related to hazardous alcohol consumption (rs = .287, p = .004) and dependence consumption (rs = .219, p = .031). Conclusion: adolescents with hazardous and dependence alcohol consumption were more likely to present aggressiveness.