Effectiveness of Anger Management Training with Cognitive Behavioral Approach on quality of marital relationship and moral anxiety substance abuse men

Aim: This study aim was to determine effectiveness level of Anger Management Training with Cognitive Behavioral Approach on quality of marital relationship and moral anxiety among substance abuse men.
Research method was semi-experimental using pretest, posttest and quarterly follow up with control group and statistical population consisted of 300 males abusing Methadone maintenance treatment in Kasra addiction center in Shahroud city in 2017. Among them, 30 volunteers were selected using available sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Then Anger Management Training Program with Cognitive-Behavioral Approach Reilly & Shopshaire, 2012, was performed for 12 sessions of 90 minutes once a week on experimental group. Research instruments was Kettle Personality Characteristics Questionnaire (1975) and Quality of Marital Relations Bassby, Kern, Larson & Kristensen (1995). Data were analyzed by repeated measure variance (MANOVA).
Results indicated that Anger Management has a significant effect on the quality of marital relationships (F= 44.38, P= 0.001) and moral anxiety (F= 27.1533, P= 0.001) among substance abuse men. Also, its effectiveness has remained stable over the course of the quarterly follow-up.
Because the way to express the excitement of anger is acquired, therefore, anger management interventions can have a positive effect on the inhibition and how to express anger in marital relations and progressive muscle relaxation also reduce tension, worry and anxiety as well as the effect on the nervous system.