The investigation of the reliability level of educational program of philosophy for children (p4c) in Education activities on controlling internalized and externalized anger in male high schools students in Tehran

TheThe aim of the recent study was to investigate the the reliability level of educational program of philosophy for children (p4c) in education activities in order to control internalized and externalized anger in male high schools students in Tehran. The type of the research was applied and by using quasi- experimental method. It was done by the research design of preliminary and final tests with a control group without random selection. The statistical population of the research was all highschool male students of the 1st grade of high school in 14th district enrolled in 2014-2015. There were 2994. The sample size of the study was 60students that were non-randomly placed in two groups of 30experimental and 30control groups. After the course of (p4c), a questionnaire of the State-Trait Anger Expression and Inventory- 2 Spielberger (STAXI-2) was used in order to collect data and in order to analyze data the Covariance analysis test was used by using SPSS in addition to the descriptive statistics. The findings of this research answered this general question: Does the performance of educational program of philosophy for children (p4c) in education activities have an effect on controlling internalized and externalized anger in male highschool students or not? These resuls confirmed the reliability of educational program of philosophy for children (p4c) to control the teenagers’ anger and place it in education activities, on one of its component, the externalized management of teenagers’ anger and it did not confirm on other components, decreasing internalized anger.