The effects of anger management training on coping with anger, satisfaction with life and the level of depression of the third year high school students

In this study the effects of Anger management training on the anger control abilities, depression levels and life satistaction of 3 rd grade high school stutents have been examined.In pursuit of the above mentioned intention State ?trait Anger Expression Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory and Life satisfaction Inventory have been applied on 126 students from Mehmet Akif Ersoy High school in the central district of Manisa city.The aritmethic averages of the higher scale values of the State ?trait Anger Expression Inventory have been taken in to account.Assuming that the students who have higher scores with respect to the group aritmethic average would have higher levels of anger and higher continuous anger levels, among these students volunteers haven been singled out and one of each pair of students who have proximate scores has been selected to the experiment group at random and the other one experiment control group at random. By this method, each having 12 students, an experiment group and an experiment control group have been constituted.The anger management training have been applied on the experiment group for 8 weeks. Not any operation has been applied on the control group. Immediately afterwards of the 8 week long training the State ?trait Anger Expression Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory and the Life Satisfaction Inventory have been applied. And the data obtained as a result of this research have been analised by ?Wilcoxon Test?.At the end of the research, as a result of the Anger Management Training, among the experiment group students, a significant decrease has been noted on both exterior and interior anger levels, and a significant increase has been noted on their anger control and life satisfaction levels. On the other hand, at the end of the above mentioned training, no significant difference has been found on the depression levels, the anger management abilities and the life satisfaction of the control group students.As a result, it can be concluded that the subject training program has a positive effect on the anger management abilities and the life satisfaction levels of the students.