This article analyzes the work of foreign and domestic psychologists who have studied the psychological characteristics of aggressive behavior in adolescence. In addition, it is characterized by aggressive and deviant forms of behavior: drug abuse, alcohol use, violence, intimidation, fights, physical and mental violence, conflicts, etc.

Methods of research and correction of aggressive behavior are described: questionnaire (archival research), verbal information (questionnaire, personality scales), projective methods (thematic apperception of TAT, Rorschach's “black spot” test, Rosenzweig image tests, diagnosis of aggression B.Darka and A.Bass.