Effectiveness of Shame Management Training in Reducing Female Adolescent's Anger in the Environment of School

Anger and its experience in the environment of school is one of the common emotions of adolescence that has been always attended by psychologists based on Tangney theory, shame appearances before anger. So, the goal of this research was the examination of the effectiveness of shame management training in reducing female adolescents’ anger in the environment of school; so non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design was used for achieving this goal. Hence, students of two female public middle schools in Tabriz were chosen by multistage-cluster random sampling method and screened. Finally, 30 students from every school were selected by purposeful random sampling and results of Multidimensional School Anger Inventory. Every school consisted of two groups. The schools were randomly designed for experimental and control groups, and correspondingly received educational package and placebo. Results of One-way analysis of covariance, after examination of its presumptions, indicated that intervention was effective (F=11.04, P