Anger management is intended to lessen both your emotional feelings and the physiological stimulation caused by anger. You can’t get rid of, ignore, or change the things or people who irritate you, but you can learn to control your reactions (
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“Recruiting subjects for treatment research is typically quite challenging. However, it was relatively simple for the anger study, and we had to close the recruitment site after a few weeks due to a large number of candidates. This shows that there is an unmet demand for anger management therapy. Many people who have anger issues feel ashamed, and we believe the internet format suits this group particularly well because they don’t have to wait in a reception room or sit face-to-face with a therapist and talk about their anger,” says Johan Bjureberg, assistant professor at Karolinska Institute and researcher responsible for the study, which was conducted in collaboration with researchers at Orebro University in Sweden.
The anger study looked at two emotion management strategies: mindful emotion awareness and cognitive reappraisal. The ability to observe and accept one’s feelings and ideas without judging or acting on them is important to mindful emotion awareness. Cognitive reappraisal, on the other hand, is concerned with the ability to reinterpret thoughts and situations and identify alternative beliefs that do not elicit unpleasant sensations.
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The 234 individuals were randomized to either mindfulness-based emotion awareness, cognitive reappraisal, or a combination of these two treatments for four weeks. All treatments were around the same length and were related to lower self-reported anger and aggressiveness at the end.
Combination Therapy is Most Effective
When compared to attentive emotion awareness or cognitive reappraisal alone, the combined therapy resulted in significantly lower levels of outward anger expression, aggressiveness, and anger rumination, but not anger suppression. The combination was especially useful for those who were angry at the outset of the research. The findings back up previous research and ideas that show that problems regulating emotions and perceiving events and situations can be major contributors to anger management issues.
“Our results suggest that a very short treatment of only four weeks administered over the internet with minimal therapist support is effective in reducing anger problems. We hope that follow-up studies will support this finding and that the treatment can be offered broadly within regular care,” explains Johan Bjureberg.
Anger is relatively prevalent and is related to high rates of psychopathology, a history of traumatic events in one’s life, and psychosocial impairment. As we get a better scientific understanding of its frequency and distribution in the population, the development of effective screening tools and early intervention strategies for angry people may assist a huge portion of the general population, particularly young adults.
Reference :
- Prevalence and correlates of anger in the community: results from a national survey – (https:pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25831968/)
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