This study is designed to shed light on the characteristics features of anger and widen it´s anger and thus contribute to the development of theory necessary for nursing intervention in cases of anger. The study was conducted with the subject of highschool girls (first graders).
The basic theoretical framework adopted for this study is transcultural nursing theory. The method of this study relies on interviews wherein interviewers were recorded and relevant concepts were
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developed out of the responses for further analysis. They included such questions as how the inter
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k, viewers behave when angry, how they communicate their anger to others, how they feel after they ~_. have expressed their angers, and how they feel when others express anger to them.
The major findings of this study are as follows: 120 relevant concepts were derived out of a total LES of 205 responses, which, in turn, were categorized in terms of the cause of anger, the recognitions
of feelings and self defense mechanisms.
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The concepts sorted in three categories were further classified on the basis of main features, the o~ concepts related to the cause of anger were threats of the loss of self-respect, existence of obstacles, and the unreal nature of´ goals.
The concepts related to the reconition of feelings were found to be explosive emotion, desire for change and feeling of´ helplessness.
Types ofself defense mechanisms emerging in respnse to anger proved to be suppression, sublimation, projection and displacement.
Finally it appears recommendable that further studies will be undertaken on the nature of anger as perceived in other groups of adolescence and that on this basis tools will be developed to study the anger of adolescence.
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