The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of self-regulation and cognitive- flexibility on trait anger and anger expression. The subject of this survey is 544 highschool students living in Daegu, Korea.
Major results are as follows....
The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of self-regulation and cognitive- flexibility on trait anger and anger expression. The subject of this survey is 544 highschool students living in Daegu, Korea.
Major results are as follows.
First, self-regulation is positively correlated with anger control, but negatively correlated with trait anger and anger expression.
Second, each of cognitive-flexibility, trait anger and anger expression is positively correlated with anger-control. Complexity preference, the sub-factor of cognitive flexibility, is negatively correlated with anger-out. However, complexity preference is not significantly correlated with 'thought diversity'.
Third, the higher the level of self-regulation and cognitive-flexibility, the higher the level of anger-control and the lower the level of anger-out. However, there is no significant difference among the comparison groups.
Fourth, Self-regulation as the most predictive variable of trait anger explains 5% of total variance of trait anger. Thought diversity explains 3% of total variance of trait anger. And complexity preference explains 2% of trait anger.
Finally, complexity preference as the most predictive variable of anger-in explains 2% of anger-in. Self-regulation which shows 14% explanation power is the most predictive variable of anger-control. Moreover, self-regulation also explains 13% of total variance of anger-out.