INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ANGER MANAGEMENT SKILLS PSYCHOEDUCATION PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BASED ON COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) based anger management psychoeducation program on the anger management skills of high school students. While the independent variable of the study is the anger management psychoeducation program based on CBT, the dependent variable is the trait anger level, anger inside, anger outside, and anger control scores determined by the Trait Anger-Anger Expression Style Scale of the adolescents. The sample of the study consists of 10th and 11th grade volunteer students studying at Ahlat Selçuklu Anatolian High School. In this study, which consists of experimental and control groups an experimental design was used; pre-test, post-test, and follow-up tests were applied. Among the volunteer students, 10 participants were randomly assigned to the experimental group and 10 participants to the control group. While the program developed by the researcher was applied to the experimental group for seven weeks, no application was made to the control group. While collecting the data of the study, the “Trait Anger-Anger Style Scale” was used. Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare the pretest and posttest scores of the experimental and control groups, and Wilcoxon Singed to compare the pretest and posttest, the posttest and follow-up test of the experimental group, and the pretest and posttest of the control group, and the posttest and follow-up test. Ranks test was used. Analysis of the research was carried out using the IBM SPSS 22.0 package program. As a result of the study, it was observed that there was a significant difference in the levels of trait anger, anger inside, anger outside, anger control levels of the participants in the experimental group, which are sub-dimensions of STAS. In the control group, there was no significant difference in any of the sub-dimensions. It can be said that the developed program has a positive effect. The findings were examined within the scope of the literature and it is thought that it will contribute to the literature by presenting practical suggestions in the study. Article visualizations