The effect of five-step anger management program on anger level in adults

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Five-Level Anger Control Training on adult anger control problem. In light of this, the other aims were to contribute to social and mental health activities by spreading anger control interventions and fill the gap observed in the literature and the practical field. Participants attended to Five-Step Anger Management Program developed by Prof. Dr. Medaim Yanık; pre-test, post-test and monitoring test were applied to measure the effectiveness of the program. The study group consisted of adult men and women over the age of 18 who live in Istanbul. Anger control training announced on the dates determined by the İbn Haldun University Psychotherapy Application and Research Center (IPAM) in Başakşehir through social media and billboards. 38 people who thought they have anger control problems, enrolled in the training and volunteered to participate in the study. The data was collected before anger control training, in the individual interviews after the first month and in the follow-up test two months after the training. The data of the study was obtained by using the Anger and Anger Expression Scale and the question of "My level of controlling anger outbursts in the last month" through the Likert-type scoring of the participants between 0 and 10. SPSS 21 statistical package program was used to perform all statistical analysis and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test was run for hypothesis testing. Comparisons of pre and post-test scores showed a statistically significant decrease in anger and anger-out scores, an increase in anger controls scores. Besides, scores of the follow-up test vii conducted two months after the training showed that the effect of each variable was continuing. Keywords: Anger, Anger Control, Five-Step Anger Management Program