The relation of criminal women's Anxiety and Problem Solving and Anger Management Styles whom stayed in the Prison as a result of murder

ABSTRACTMaster Thesis of PsychologyConsultant: Assist. Prof. Dr. Bayhan ÜGEOctober, 2012THE RELATION OF CRIMINAL WOMEN?S ANXIETY AND PROBLEM SOLVING SCALES AND ANGER MANAGEMENT STYLES WHOM STAYED IN THE PRISON AS A RESULT OF MURDERThe main objective of this research are investigate to find relation of the anxiety levels, problem solving skills and anger management styles with the comparison between criminal women and non-criminal women. Additional main objective of this research is test of controlling anxiety skills might be a main variable in criminal women. In the other word, main objective of this research might the skills have changes when other variables controlled in criminal women.Direction of this purpose, the questionnaire form has included Personal Information Form, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Contiunal Anger- Anger Evidence Scales and Problem Solving Scales and applied to 115 criminal women cause of murder whom stayed in the Bakırköy Close Women Prison and applied to 115 non-criminal women whom random selected from Istanbul city, at May 2012.The research results analyzed in computer environment with SPSS 20.0 statistically software. The results evaluated with definitional and descriptively statistical methods (frequency, percentage, average, standard variation, correlation) used Independent Groups T-Tests, One-Way ANOVA and Hierarchy Regression methods.In the results of the research, non-criminal women and criminal women anxiety levels are differentiated statistically, criminal women have more anxiety than non-criminal women, non-criminal women and criminal women have different problem solving scales statistically but both of them have similar problem solving skills. Furthermore, criminal and non-criminal women?s continual anger scales and showing anger control skills didn?t differentiate statistically but holding their anger and controlling anger management scales differentiated statistically. Criminal women?s control anger management scales are higher than non-criminal women, but their holding anger management is lower than non-criminal women in the research group statistically. According to the results, to decrease of anxiety levels of criminal women cause of murder, we have to careful about their anger variables especially. Particularly the main strategies are controlling anger management and using better effective relationship methods, instead of holding anger management and to bring out into the open negative emotions and anger.According to Hierarchy Regression results, problem solving skills don?t affect anxiety and the other side social-demographic variables, criminal variables and anger variables. However a suicide initiative in the past affected some variables on the continual anger, showing anger and holding anger management. Using some pocket methods and care suicide initiative in the past, can purpose on the criminal women cause of murder controlling anger levels and anger explain methods instead of only controlling anger management application. Diagnosis on the literature are explained and measured about applications.Keywords: Criminal women, prison, anxiety, problem solving skills, anger, anger style.