The impact of anger management training on emotional intelligence, social intimacy and deterministic thinking of high school Female students

Abstract

The current applied, quasi-experimental study adopted a descriptive –survey approach with pre-test/post-test design with a control group. The statistical population included 3400 high school students in Babol, Mazandaran, Iran, in the academic year of 2020-2021, among whom 30 people were selected (15 people in the experimental group, 15 people in the control group) using cluster random sampling method. Data collection tools were Smith (2014) Anger Management Training Package, Bar-On’s (1980) Standard Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, Miller & Lefkourt (1982) Social Intimacy Questionnaire, and Younesi (2004) Deterministic Thinking. The validity of this questionnaire was confirmed by experts and the reliability of the questionnaires were calculated through Cronbach's alpha coefficient including emotional intelligence model as 0.90, social intimacy as 0.89 and deterministic thinking as 0.90 percent. For data analysis, the descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and the inferential statistics (Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, the multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) for the main hypothesis and the univariate analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) for the sub-hypotheses were used using Spss22 software. The results showed that anger management training had an impact on emotional intelligence, social intimacy and deterministic thinking of high school students in Babol. It also showed that anger management training prevented students from increasing their physical and mental arousal during aggression.