The Relation between Resilience, Abnormal Personality Traits and Anger: Testing the Mediating Role of Air Pollution Perception

Anger is associated with problems at work, interpersonal relationships, and quality of life. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation of resilience and abnormal personality traits with anger through the mediation of perception of air pollution.

This research was applied in terms of purpose and its method is correlation. The statistical samples of this study were 250 students of a military university in 2020-2021 in Tehran, Iran who were selected by cluster random sampling. The tools used in this study were Connor-Davidson (2003) Resilience Questionnaire with Cronbach's alpha coefficient and convergent validity of 0.93 and 0.58; Dimensions of Abnormal Personality of Kroger et al. (2012) with reliability and validity of 0.94 and 0.69; Spielberger (1999) Trait-State Anger with reliability and validity of 0.95 and 0.55 and also Air Pollution Perception Questionnaire of Yazdanparast et al. (2014) with reliability and validity of 0.96 and 0.58. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling using SPSS 26 software and version 3 of Smart PLS software.

Most of the participants among the 250 research samples were in the age group of 25 to 35 years (44.8%), most of them had master's degree (55.6%). The coefficient of effect of abnormal personality traits on perception of air pollution was 0.324, the characteristics of abnormal personality traits on anger were 0.323, the perception of air pollution on anger was 0.266 and the relation between variables were positive and significant and the coefficient of effect of resilience on perception of air pollution was 0.222, and of resilience on anger was estimated to be -0.162 and the relation between these variables was negative and significant. Also, the mediating role of perception of air pollution in the relation between abnormal personality traits and anger as well as the relation between resilience and anger was confirmed (p <0.05).

Due to the mediating role of pollution perception in relation of abnormal personality traits and resilience with anger, individuals’ anger can be reduced through monitoring and optimizing air quality, personality traits and promoting resilience.