The Effectiveness of Group counseling of Controlling the Anger Based on Religious Policy on Deduction the Aggression of male Pre – university Students

Subject Areas : social psychology

Rahim  Cheldavi ¹ (shahid chamran university of Ahvaz)
Mohammad  Hossein Pour ² (Islamic Azad University of Ahvaz, Department of Psychology)
Abdul Kazem  Neis ³ (Department of Psychology of Shahid Chamran University, Ahva)

Received: 2019-06-06 Accepted : 2019-09-24 Published : 2019-09-23

Keywords: religious, aggression, anger control,

Abstract :

Abstract The aim of this research was to study the effectiveness of group counseling of controlling the anger based on religious approach on reduction of aggression of male pre-university students on academic year 1387-1388. 40 students were chosen sample randomly and divided in two experimental and control group. The instrument which used in this research is AAI. The method of this research is pre-test and post-test experimental with control group. Group counseling of controlling the anger based on religious approach executed on experimental group in 8 sessions and post-test done on both groups. In order to analyze the data beside of descriptive statistics method such as average and standard deviation, the inferential statistics methods such as variance analysis with repeated measure and multi-variable co-variance analysis have been used. The results of this research with meaning full α = 0/05 showed that group counseling of controlled the anger based on religious approach results in reduction of aggression in experimental group in comparison with control group. Therefore, group counseling of controlling the anger based on religious approach can be used by psychotherapies and school counselors as a way to reduce student aggression. Key words: Anger control, religious, aggression