Aggression and Violence Control Components and the Impact of Skills Training among Youth in North Khorasan Province

The study is to identify the components of controlling aggression and violence and the effect of its skills training among youth in North Khorasan Province. The research method was qualitative and quantitative in the first part and in the second part, the research was semi-experimental. The statistical population included the youth of North Khorasan Province. For sampling in the qualitative section, sampling was used in a small section of simple random sampling. In the qualitative section, 29 people were interviewed and in a small section with unlimited volumes of society, according to the Stevens formula (2002), which were sampled based on the number of questions and parameters, 255 people participated as examples in the first part of the research. The information gathering tools in the first part were interview and researcher made questionnaire and in the second part, Nazari's anger and aggression questionnaire (2018). After confirming the validity of the questionnaire, the researcher-made questionnaire was 0/90 and the anger and aggression questionnaire 0/92 was calculated through Cronbach's alpha. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Data analysis was performed using SPSS-24 and AMOS16 software. Based on the analysis of qualitative data from deep and exploratory interviews and the coding and analysis of the content of the interview text while their correspondence with theoretical foundations, the results in the qualitative section indicated 32 components in controlling anger and aggression. These components were identified in two sections of short-term methods and long-term method in controlling anger and aggression. Among them, the components of beliefs and religion with factor load of 0/77 and the factor of exercise with factor load of 0/75, the highest coefficient of effect and the component of numbering with factor load had the lowest coefficient of influence of 0/48 respondents. The method of this study was in the second part of the semi-experimental research project, in which 40 subjects were selected in the experimental group and the control group and their scores were extracted. Then, training on the skills of anger and aggression based on the components identified in the qualitative research section was taught to the experimental group during the training sessions during the 8 sessions. The results of the second part of the research in the training sessions for controlling anger and aggression showed that the effect of training anger control and aggression skills in experimental and control groups among young people is statistically significant at level (P <0/001). According to the findings, it can be concluded that the training of anger control and aggression control skills is based on the identified components among the youth of North Khorasan Province.