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Safavi S Z, Eslami D. The Effects of Anger Management Training on Delinquency and Social Harms Among Adolescent Girls Living in Welfare Care Centers. MEJDS 2020; 10 :213-213
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1- Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch
2- Zanjan University
2- Zanjan University
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Background & Objectives: Adolescence is a time of biopsychological change as well as alternations in social interactions and interpersonal relationships; thus, the tendency to antisocial behaviors is more prevalent in this age frame. A prominent feature of this period is the tendency to social harm. Another problem that occurs during adolescence is delinquency. Anger management training can be used to correct such behaviors. The harmful effects of anger are presented on the mind and social life of individuals. Inability to control anger can lead to consequences, like aggression. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of anger management training on delinquency and social harms among adolescent girls living in welfare centers.
Methods: This was a quasi–experimental study with a pretest–posttest and a control group design. The statistical population of the study included all adolescent girls living in the care centers under the auspices of the Zanjan Welfare Organization in 2019 (N=319). Among whom, 30 qualified volunteers were selected by purposive sampling method and were randomly divided into 2 groups of experimental and control (n=15/group). The inclusion criteria of the present study included being adolescent girls living in the care centers under the auspices of the Welfare Organization of Zanjan Province, Iran, in 2019, being interested in cooperating with the research, and having no physical or mental illnesses (based on the information in their welfare record). The exclusion criteria also included the lack of interest in cooperating with the research and absence from more than one training session. The subjects of both research groups completed the Adolescent's Delinquency Questionnaire (Fazli, 2010) and the Risk Behaviors Questionnaire (Zadeh Mohammadi et al, 2011) in the pretest and posttest stages. The experimental group underwent 8 sessions of anger management program training (Novaka & Spivak, 1975); however, the control group received no intervention during this period. Furthermore, to analyze the obtained data, descriptive statistics, including mean and standard deviation as well as inferential statistics, like Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) were used. All statistical calculations were performed using SPSS at the significance level of 0.05.
Results: The current study findings indicated that by controlling the effect of the pretest, there was a significant difference between the mean scores of social harms (p˂0.001) and delinquency (p˂0.001) in the posttest values of the experimental group. Additionally, the relevant results suggested that the magnitude of the effects of social harms and delinquency were 0.706 and 0.516, respectively.
Conclusion: In general, the collected results revealed that anger management training reduced social harms and delinquency in the explored adolescent girls living in the care centers under the auspices of the Welfare Organization. Therefore, anger management training is recommended to be used in this population.
Methods: This was a quasi–experimental study with a pretest–posttest and a control group design. The statistical population of the study included all adolescent girls living in the care centers under the auspices of the Zanjan Welfare Organization in 2019 (N=319). Among whom, 30 qualified volunteers were selected by purposive sampling method and were randomly divided into 2 groups of experimental and control (n=15/group). The inclusion criteria of the present study included being adolescent girls living in the care centers under the auspices of the Welfare Organization of Zanjan Province, Iran, in 2019, being interested in cooperating with the research, and having no physical or mental illnesses (based on the information in their welfare record). The exclusion criteria also included the lack of interest in cooperating with the research and absence from more than one training session. The subjects of both research groups completed the Adolescent's Delinquency Questionnaire (Fazli, 2010) and the Risk Behaviors Questionnaire (Zadeh Mohammadi et al, 2011) in the pretest and posttest stages. The experimental group underwent 8 sessions of anger management program training (Novaka & Spivak, 1975); however, the control group received no intervention during this period. Furthermore, to analyze the obtained data, descriptive statistics, including mean and standard deviation as well as inferential statistics, like Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) were used. All statistical calculations were performed using SPSS at the significance level of 0.05.
Results: The current study findings indicated that by controlling the effect of the pretest, there was a significant difference between the mean scores of social harms (p˂0.001) and delinquency (p˂0.001) in the posttest values of the experimental group. Additionally, the relevant results suggested that the magnitude of the effects of social harms and delinquency were 0.706 and 0.516, respectively.
Conclusion: In general, the collected results revealed that anger management training reduced social harms and delinquency in the explored adolescent girls living in the care centers under the auspices of the Welfare Organization. Therefore, anger management training is recommended to be used in this population.
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