Status of Anger Control Skills in Students Print

Anger leads to behaviors that bring great damages. Anger management helps people to learn how to be calm and feel no anger before the start it.
The purpose of this study was to determine the state of anger control skills in students at School of Health¡ Iran University of Medical Sciences¡ Iran.
This cross-sectional study was conducted on 166 students in 2015. The sampling method was stratified random sampling. The data gathering tool was a standard questionnaire for anger control skills (PACT). Data were entered in SPSS software version 22 and analyzed using descriptive (frequency¡ percentage¡ mean¡ standard deviation) and analytical (chi-squared¡ exact Fisher’s and Pearson’s correlation coefficient tests) statistics.
Mean of age in these students was 27 years¡ 72.3% were single¡ 62.7% were female¡ 84.3% were undergraduate and had master of sciences¡ and 60.2% lived in dormitory. Mean of scores of anger control skills was moderate. While 62% of them had good status in humor skills¡ the status of other anger control skills were moderate. There was a significant relationship between the score of anger control skills and student accommodation (P = 0.004) and mean of course marks (P = 0.014). It means that anger control skills in dormitory students and students with lower average of course marks were better.
Discussion and Anger control skills were not desirable in the studied population and promotion interventions in this field should be provided. Regarding the correlation between the scores of anger control sub-skills¡ improving each of these skills can be effective on promoting another one. Educational planning in each of these skills is suggested.