The role of social loneliness, failure and religiosity in ruminating the anger of prisoners

Anger appears as a feeling in a person and the inability to control it leads to anger rumination and violent behavior. This study aimed to investigate anger rumination and the sociological factors affecting it among prisoners who committed violent behaviors in Yazd and Bushehr.

The present study is a survey-correlation study and the statistical population consists of male prisoners who committed violent behaviors (murder, assault and battery) in the central prisons of Yazd and Bushehr. Due to the limited number of violent crimes in these two prisons, the study was conducted on a total of 300 people. Data were collected through the Anger rumination questionnaire (ARS) of Svkvlsky et al, the Social Loneliness Scale, the Glock and Stark Standard Religiosity Questionnaire, and the Gilbert and Allen Failure Questionnaire. SPSS and Amos software was used to analyze the data.

Findings showed that there is a direct and significant relationship between religiosity, failure, and emotional social loneliness with anger rumination (P <0.05). There was a significant negative relationship between religiosity and rumination(P <0.05). According to the results of the structural equation model, the indicators of which have a favorable fit, increase in the feeling of failure, and decrease in religiosity have a significant effect on anger rumination.

People who are less religious and feel socially lonely become more prone to internal strife and rumination with a sense of failure to satisfy needs, demands, and interactions, and this factor deteriorates their violent behaviors.