TOJCE ISSN: 2146-8192

The Online Journal of Counseling and Education, 2015, 4(4), 16-34

The Effects of the Anger Management Program and the Group Counseling on the Anger Management Skills of Adolescents

Defne Yılmaz Assistant Professor Dr. at Akdeniz University

Oya G. Ersever Professor Dr.at Hacettepe University

Abstract The purpose of this experimental study was to investigate the short term and the long term effectiveness of the two distinct interventions, anger management training and psychological group counseling on helping anger management skills of adolescents. The State Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) was used to test the state anger and anger expression styles of the subject as pre-test, post-test and four months follow up test applications. Two experiment groups and one control group were formed based on the trait anger scores of a group of high school students. Twelve weeks anger management training developed by the researcher and twelve weeks encounter group were conducted. To evaluate the effectivenesses and comparisons of the interventions, Kruskal Wallis, Mann-Whitney U and Wilcoxon tests were used and p