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- This study examined how disconnection of thoughts, repeated thinking, and avoidance behaviors contribute to anger management in college students.
- Undergraduate participants reflected on past anger experiences and filled out questionnaires about their thoughts and behaviors related to those feelings.
- Results showed that feeling a lack of clarity in thoughts after an anger episode led to more recurrent thinking, which kept their anger alive and increased avoidance behaviors.
Article Abstract
Relationships were investigated between the sense of unintegration of thoughts, recurrent thinking, and avoidance behavior, which are considered to be factors in maintaining anger. Undergraduate students (N = 990) were asked to write about anger episodes that they had experienced a week or more ago. Then, they completed a questionnaire assessing their sense of unintegration of thoughts at the present time and just after the episode, their present recurrent thinking, their avoidance behavior after the episode, and their present degree of anger. The results of covariance structure analysis indicated that the sense of unintegration of thoughts just after the episode maintained anger through recurrent thinking. Recurrent thinking also intensified their present sense of unintegration of thoughts, which directly maintained anger. Moreover, the sense of unintegration of thoughts just after the episode led to an increase in avoidance behavior, which was related to recurrent thinking.
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