The relationship between sociotropic autonomic personality characteristics and trait anger and anger expression styles in adolescents: A descriptive/relationally study

Purpose: Adolescence is an important period for personality development. In this period, adolescents experience intense feelings of anger as well as complex emotions. It is thought that personality traits play an important role in controlling the anger of adolescents. This research was conducted to determine the relationship between sociotropic autonomic personality characteristics and trait anger and anger expression styles of adolescents. Method: The research is a descriptive and relationally study. The research was conducted with 201 female and 149 male adolescents, who were between the ages of 14-19. Before starting the study, the permission of the Ethics Committee was obtained. The data was collected with the Descriptive Information Form, Sociotropy Autonomy Personality Scale, Trait Anger and Anger Expression Styles Scale. Results: In this study, was determined that the adolescents' sociotropic 69.32±17.10, autonomic 69.20±14.10 personality and trait anger 22.84±5.52, anger-in 17.54±4.32, anger-out 17.60±4.96, anger control 19.40±4.94 scores were at a moderate level. It is observed that as the level of sociotropy increases, the level of trait anger and anger-in increases; and as the level of autonomy increases, the levels of trait anger, anger-in and anger-out increase. Conclusions: Nurses, school guidance service, school management and families should work in cooperation to ensure the balanced development of adolescents' sociotropic autonomic personality characteristics and to improve anger control. They should plan and maintain the necessary training and monitoring activities.