The effect of anger management education with a group on the continuous anger level of 9th class students

This is an experimental research in which the effect of anger management education with a group on the continuous anger level of 9th class students is studied. For this, during 2006-2007 education year, 452 9th class students who attend an official secondary school were interviewed. ?The State Trait Anger Scale STAS? was applied to them. If the scale of continuous anger, anger inside and anger outside points are higher than average, and bottom scale of anger management point is lower than average, it is stated that the students? level of anger management is low. A group of experiment and control were formed with 28 volunteer students (14 students for each) determined as `angry?. In this research, Anger Management Education Programme was applied to the group of experiment once a week for 10 weeks. After 10 weeks ?The State Trait Anger Scale STAS ? was applied to both groups again. Considering the aims of this research, t-test was used for the bilateral confrontations done for determining the meaningfulness of the difference between the results got from these groups. Finally, it was observed that the anger level of the students in the group of experiment was lowered and their level of controlling anger was increased by means of anger management education. It was determined that there wasn?t an important change in the anger management skills of the students in the group of control. In conclusion, it can be stated that anger management education programme strongly effects the continuous anger level of adolescents.