Anger, Emotional Regulation And It Relationship With Mental Health Among Male And Female Students

Abstract

Anger and emotional regulation can be a reaction to a perceived internal or external provocation and can be psychological interpretation of having been offended, wronged or denied and a tendency to react through retaliation. Whereas mental health means an absence of mental illness and can be measured through usage of different scales or inventories. Present study is an attempt to assess mental health, anger and emotional regulation among early and late adolescents including both male and female students. Method: To understand present aim of the study a total sample of 120 were taken from Delhi University (D.U) and Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI). We further divided our sample into early adolescent aged 13-15 yrs. and late adolescents aged 16-19 yrs. Further sample was split on the basis of gender, thus 60 subjects were divided into 30 male adolescent and 30 female adolescents in both the groups (2×2 factorial design). Tools Used: (1). PGI Health Questionnaire: developed by Verma, Wig, Parshad (1978) (2). The Clinical Anger Scale (CAS) developed by Snell (1995) (3). Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) developed by Gross and John (2003). Result: It was found that early and late adolescents did not differ significantly on the measure of mental health. However while comparing early and late adolescents on the measure of Clinical Anger, it was found that there was a significant difference between the two groups. Clinical anger was found higher in age range of 13-15 as compared to 16-19. Female were found higher than male on the measure of mental health. Emotion regulation has been argued to be an important factor in well-being and it is a way of dealing with strong