THE IMPACT OF ANGER MANAGEMENT TRAINING ON ANGER, AGGRESSION AND PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the group anger managementtraining program on the anger, aggression and problem-solving skills of adolescents. Theresearch is a semi-experimental study based on a pre-test-post-test model with a controlgroup. The study consisted of a total of 36 students, 18 of which were in the experimentalgroup and 18 of which were in the control group. "Anger Inventory for Children","Aggression Scale" and "Problem Solving Inventory for Children" were used as datacollection tools. In terms of the data analysis, the suitability of the data for normaldistributions was determined by the one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, "t-test" was usedfor the significance of the difference between the score points of the groups and As a resultof the research, the students learnt the appropriate expression methods by betterunderstanding the concept of anger. It has been observed that the cognitive-behavioralapproach used in the implemented curriculum reduces the anger and aggressive behaviors infavor of male students.