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Shubham answered on
Oct 23 2021
QUESTION 2 "WHAT IS INTERPERSONAL ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND WHY HAS IT BECOME SO PROMINENT ON THE INTERNET?"
Table of Contents
Research Question 3
Introduction 3
Definitions 3
What is Interpersonal Anti-Social Behaviour? 3
Types of Anti-Social Behaviour 4
Reasons for Such Behaviour with Examples 6
Prominence of Antisocial Behaviour on the Internet 7
Impact on Society 9
How it can be controlled 10
Holistic Lifestyle 10
Parental Contracts 10
Environmental Changes 10
Acceptable Behaviour Contracts (ABCs) 11
Awareness Campaigns 11
School Cu
iculums to Influence Behavioural Patterns 11
Conclusion 11
References 13
Research Question
What is interpersonal antisocial behaviour and why has it become so prominent on the internet?
Introduction
Humans are social creatures who interact on various platforms to exchange their thoughts, desires, values, beliefs and ideas. It is a common pattern that as a social participant they might agree or disagree to them. Within their communities, they have social norms, defined behaviours, which are expected to be followed by individuals who belong to that group. The character traits of a person, his temperament and the personality, which he holds, are collectively responsible for creating an integrative framework, which helps in exploring the problematic areas in social context (Bauer et al. 2018). This has attracted researchers from different domains who are studying human behaviour under the category of antisocial behaviour to examine the theme on personality-economic interface so that various problems pertaining to it can be identified. This will further help in extending the research for finding the solutions in order to co
ect such behaviours and
ing them to within acceptable social limits.
Definitions
Antisocial: Antisocial stands for what is harmful for society and not in harmony with social norms.
Behaviour: It is a way of conduct in a particular situation, by humans in response to the stimuli
Antisocial behaviour: The behaviour in a social format, which is not acceptable because it does not fit morally, hurt sentiments of others, cause them mental and emotional trauma and cause physical damage (Bauer et al. 2018).
Society: The structured social organisations, in which we live, interact, share ideas and learn from each other.
Internet: It is a technology, which is of common usage in every smartphone, links various webpages and contains plethora of information
DATES syndrome: It stands for drugs, abuse, teasing, elective surgeries and antisocial lifestyle
ASPD: Antisocial personality disorder is a psychological and mental disease, which needs medical attention and support of family to get cured (Sohail et al. 2020).
What is Interpersonal Anti-Social Behaviour?
Interpersonal antisocial behaviour can be explained as a style of gaining attention in a group by adopting practices, which are negative in context of social acceptance such as insensitivity towards society, i
esponsible behaviour, impulsiveness and disobedience (Byrne, 2020). There are other symptoms as well like:
· They always blame others for their problems
· They are physically aggressive
· They behave recklessly
· They do not hesitate while
eaking the law
· They vandalise or destroy other’s property
· Deceiving or manipulative behaviour for others
· They do not feel bad for their hurtful actions
These symptoms also indicate ASPD, which needs therapies as a treatment. If not treated on time, this can lead to serious harm to people around.
Because of antisocial behaviour, the lifestyle of such people is influenced to higher extent. The peak years of such life are 7-13 years, 14-18 years and 19-30 years (Wiesner, Capaldi & Patterson, 2017). There are gender based differential behaviours, which are also observed. Men tend to be more antisocial as compared to women. The traits of anti-social behaviour are visible in early days of childhood.
It is believed that females have high moral self-relevance, less antisocial behaviour and less self-serving cognitive distortion. However, males and females are equally judged on moral grounds. The sex differences and neurodevelopmental factors are responsible for their behaviour and the situations to which they react (Tehrani & Yamini, 2020). This definitely included their up
inging and the childhood incidence, which shaped up the same.
When a person has committed a crime or the person may be convicted falsely, in that case, the perception of the society towards him changes. The judgemental behaviour also encourages following antisocial behaviour because his changed attitude is not accepted despite his efforts. Before judging an antisocial behaviour, it is required to conduct necessary background research in order to know the exact reasons for the deviations.
Types of Anti-Social Behaviou
Antisocial behaviour is described as a behaviour, which is not within social norms. Despite this on a
oader front, some behaviours are listed here:
Vandalism: Damaging government property or public property just to show anger is not acceptable. Those properties are created from taxpayers’ money and these included their blood and sweat. Such acts need to be legally condemned.
Criminal damage: This can be theft, kidnapping, murder, rape or forcing someone into unlawful actions with or without his or consent. This involves cybercrime also (Thomas & Appukuttan, 2021). Posting manipulative videos or pictures and hurting the image of a person on social media are few of its examples.
Creating Noise:. Creating noise in any form, which is distu
ing to others or creating problems for them so that they are not able to focus on their work are included here. For example: honking repeatedly when children or aged people are crossing roads, or near hospitals in considered as antisocial behaviour (Brouwer, 2021).
Abusing: Indeed, ve
al and physical abuse is not acceptable. No one have the right to abuse others just because they were denied to some favours so they are happy with others actions.
Threatening someone: Threating is unlawful act, which is also an antisocial behaviour. It is something, which you cannot tolerate and act as a concern for safety and security (Losada, Crestani & Parapar, 2018).
Harassment: There is various form of harassment, which are prevalent at workplace, in society, in families and in relations. Various laws are there to address the issues as they distu
the person and his or her performance on various fronts. They become conscious of what they are, lose confidence and feel demotivated.
Creating misunderstanding and disputes: Creating misunderstanding by false presentation of information is an antisocial behaviour because it can influence consent and critical decisions. This can cause have serious consequences on life and health of a person (Wiesner, Capaldi & Patterson, 2017).
Antisocial behaviour can take someone’s life such as in universities ragging is banned. However, sometimes it was fun but sometimes it crossed the limits, which created psychological issues for them. It also leads to serious health concerns such as heart attacks, paralysis or suicide attempts. Therefore ragging was banned and
ought under legal framework....