The Effects of Teaching Positive Emotions and Anger Management Skills on the Physical and Mental Health of Physical Education Teachers

Positive emotions are the first component of positive psychology which serves as a useful resource for regulating negative emotional experiences in everyday life and it is one of the best strategies in emotional regulation. The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of teaching positive emotions and anger control on having positive emotions and avoiding negative emotions and anger control and improving the mental health and physical health of sports teachers.

The design of the present research was of quasi-experimental type, pre-test, post-test and follow-up (2 months) design. The statistical population of elementary school sports teachers in the 5th district of Isfahan city, whose number was 420. Of these, 40 people were selected as study subjects using the available sampling method and they were divided into two groups (training of positive emotions and anger control and control group). The data collection tool was the 50-item scale of positive and negative emotions and anger control, control and mental health and physical health of sports teachers. In this research, data analysis was done with univariate analysis of variance and after 2 months, a follow-up test of the effect of positive emotion intervention and anger control was done.

The findings of descriptive statistics related to the mean and standard deviation of the scores of positive emotions and anger control, control and mental health and physical health of physical education teachers separately for the experimental and control groups showed that the average scores in the control group, in the pre-test and post-test stages, do not show much change compared to the experimental group But in the experimental group, an increase in the scores in the post-test compared to the pre-test was observed in the above variables. The educational intervention of positive emotions and anger control improves mental health, mental control, physical health and increases the level of positive emotions and decreases the level of negative emotions of sports teachers.

According to the obtained results, it can be said that having positive emotions and controlling anger based on a positive approach causes sports teachers to not tend to use negative emotions. and it also leads to controlling anger and improving and controlling their mental and physical health. The sports teachers who participated in the training workshop of positive emotions and anger control based on positive psychology approach gave their students the opportunity to participate more in the sports classroom processes. Therefore, it is possible to use the teaching of positive emotions and anger control based on the positive psychology approach to improve and promote the control and mental and physical health of sports teachers.