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The primary objective for this study was to conduct an empirical investigation to gather information in the form of data from adolescent males and females in the Pretoria region of South Africa. Information was gathered with respects to their level of physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger, hostility and depression. The information was used to identify whether correlations exist between the three variables anger, aggression and depression for South African adolescents.

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Dr Elliott completed his PhD studies in 2011; he is the Deputy Headmaster of a private school in South Africa and has twenty years high school teaching experience. In 2012 he published Adolescent Males body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating. As an educator and registered counsellor, his particular area of interest lies with adolescent development.

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