Causal Model for Family Communication Patterns, Resilience and Control of Anger with Tendency to Violence

The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of resilience and control of anger in relationship between family communication patterns dimensions and tendency to violence in high school students. Therefore 287 high school students of Babolsar city were selected by random multi-stage cluster sampling method. To collect data, Family Communication Patterns, Resilience,Scale Control of Anger Questionnaire and Tendency to Violence Scale were used. In order to evaluate the proposed model of this study, path analyze method was used. Regarding the values obtained for the indexes, data were fitted with the proposed model of the research. The general effect showed that the conversation orientation variable has the most effectiveness on the changes of tendency to violence. Calculation of the affectivity degree of independent variables on dependent ones indicates that 12 percent of the changes in resilience variable, 40 percent of changes in control of anger, and 39 percent of changes in tendency to violence variable are explained by the proposed model. Investigating the mediating role of resilience and control of anger in the relationship of family communication pattern and tendency to violence found that resilience have a mediating role in the relationship of conversation dimension of family communication pattern and tendency to violence and control of anger have a mediating role in the relationships of both dimensions of family communication pattern and tendency