| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 心理學研究所 === 99 === Background: Children’s angry feeling and anger expression are related to academic performance, social relationship and well-being. Effective emotion regulation skills are protective factors to cope with anger events. Deficient emotion regulation competences are risk factors for dysfunctional psycho-behaviors. Moreover, trait-anger is an index to predict response trend. After anger arousal, cognitive regulation processes play a core role in anger outcome. The purposes of this study were to explore the direct effects of trait-anger and thought strategies on anger states and if there were interact between those variables.
Method: Participants were fifth- and sixth-grade children from Taipei and I-Lan. Psychometric characteristics of Chinese STAXI-CA of state-anger and trait-anger subscales were examined. Use the standardized instrument to select the high and low trait-anger sample. The 69 boys and 66 girls randomly assigned to two experimental conditions (baseline, anger arousal and then rumination or distraction). Each stage of the anger state was assessed by two kinds of self-report scales. Finally, statistic analyzed the influence of two variables (trait-anger and thought strategies) on the anger level.
Results: The result indicated that Chinese STAXI-CA of state-anger and trait-anger subscales had adequate reliability and validity. High trait-anger group had higher anger state before arousal and worsened the discrepancy of anger state contrasted to low trait-anger group after arousal. With significant interaction of trait-anger and thought strategies, subjects could lead to the same consequence of the change of anger level after arousal through the same thought strategy. Besides, rumination resulted in maintaining or increasing anger and distraction resulted in decreasing anger.
Conclusions: Trait-anger is an important sign to forecast general anger states. Thought strategies are key processes to regulate anger level. The consequence of anger is major determine on regulation manners at right time. Furthermore, these implications would provide additional insight to the planning of interventions.
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