분노에 관한 기초 연구 = A Preliminary Study on Anger

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

An attempt was made, noticing that there is little or no study on the basic natures of anger in Korea, to explore the fundamental characteristics of anger experienced by Koreans. As a way of comparison, the present study adapted similar kinds of questions included in the Averill study (1982), which has been regarded as one of the best surveys on anger in Western society. Some additional items were also included, however, to examine the hypothesis proposed by Chon (1989). The number of participants were the same as in Averill's study (1982), consisting of 80 college students and 80 adults. As a whole, the findings appear to be similar to Averill (1982). The present findings also support the hypotheses proposed by Chon (1989); The intensity of anger is proportional to the importance of the anger episodes, and the discrepancy between the desired state and the present state, while it is disproportional to the controllability over the anger related episodes. Discussions concerning the present findings were made and the implications for future studies were also suggested.