The Effects of Creative Drama over the Anger Management Skills of 9th Grade Secondary School Students

Abstract

The aim of this study is to study the effects of creative drama on the development of anger management skills of the ninth graders and to probe the relationship between these effects and their gender. In the study, an experimental research design with pre-test/post-test and control group was used. With this purpose, this study included the ninth graders at a secondary public school and had 15 students in the control and intervention groups. The data in this study were collected with the “Continuous Anger and Anger Expression Scale”. Through 12 weeks,(90 minutes per week) once in a week, the “Anger Management Creative Drama Study” was implemented in the intervention group whereas the guidance and orientation programme was applied in the control group. The results yield that the creative drama implementation had a substantially positive effect on the students’ anger level. Nonetheless, it was also found out that the effects of the creative drama and the programme of the counselling and guidance lesson for the secondary education on the development of anger management skills did not vary much among the gender.