The Effect of Anger Management, Training on Students’ Emotional Intelligence (EI)

Abstract

The main topic of this research is how teaching anger management, skills affects emotional intelligence of first year university female students of Roodehen Islamic Azad University in Iran. The study population is all first year female students of Roodehen Islamic Azad University. The study was carried out on 60 students who were selected by multi-stage randomized sampling method and were divided into the TWO groups (experimental and control, with 30 students in each group). Before carrying out the experimental intervention (presentation of the independent variables), the TWO groups were given the pre-test using the Emotional Intelligence questionnaire (EQI). Then, the students in experimental group attended five2-hour training sessions of anger management, One week after the intervention, the two groups were post-tested again using the EQI. The data were analyzed using Ancova method ( analysis of covariance) t –test and Mann-Whitney U Test. Results of the study indicate that training in anger management, skills will lead to increased Emotional Intelligence of female students, compared with the control group.