Anger among college students: Efficacy of REBT-based anger management workshop

• Main Author: Karimpanackal, Manuel J.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2002
• Subjects: Feeling therapy; Psychotherapy; College students; Anger; Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/876
• Institution: De La Salle University

This experimental study investigates the efficacy of REBT-based anger management workshop among college students.It was an outcome research that made use of pretest posttest control group design. The subjects of the study were 20 undergraduate third year psychology students who scored in the upper quartile of State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory. They were equally and randomly assigned to the experimental and control group. The experimental group participated in the REBT-based anger management workshop facilitated by the researcher. The workshop consisted of six sessions of 90 minutes each and the sessions were held twice a week for three weeks. State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI-2), Anger Questionnaire, and Beliefs Inventory were the instruments used to assess the experience and expression of anger, and the irrational beliefs of the participants. The data obtained from STAXI-2 were subjected to two-way repeated measures design. The data from Anger Questionnaire and Beliefs Inventory were categorized, tabulated, and frequencies were gathered.The following were the findings of the study: (a) There was a decrease in frequency, intensity, and duration of anger episodes of the participants after the intervention. (b) There was a sharp reduction in the irrational beliefs. (c) There was a significant difference (p.05) between the pretest and posttest scores of the experimental group in trait anger, anger expression-out, anger expression-in, and anger control-in. (d) The treatment effects were stable at follow-up.