eghbal zarei; maryam mobbasser; shiringol karimpour
Abstract
The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of training anger management according to cognitive approach on the impulsivity in bully male students’. it was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, control group and two-month follow-up design. The statistical population ...
Read More
The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of training anger management according to cognitive approach on the impulsivity in bully male students’. it was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, control group and two-month follow-up design. The statistical population included first high school bully male students in the city of Bandar Abbas in academic year 2-19-20. 30 bully male students were selected through purposive sampling method and they were randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (each group of 15 students). The experimental group received eight seventy-five-minute intervention sessions of training anger management according to cognitive approach (Shokouhi Yekta, Kakabaraei, 2017) during a month. 2 students from the experimental group and 3 from the control group went out of the study. The applied questionnaires in this study included Illinois Bullying Scale (IBS), and Barratt Impulsivity scale (BIS). The data from the study were analyzed through Mixed ANOVA via SPSS23 software. the results showed that training anger management according to cognitive approach has significant effect on the impulsivity in bully male students’ (p<0.001). according to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that training anger management according to cognitive-behavioral approach can be applied as an efficient method to decrease impulsivity in bully male students’ through focusing on anger management skills, practical techniques of anger management and cognitive self-teaching.
