Degree of Anger in High School Female Students-A Case Study

-Anger is a normal and healthy emotion. It is a predominant feeling behaviorally, cognitively, and physiologically when a person makes the conscious choice to take action to immediately stop the threatening behavior of another outside force (DiGiuseppe and Tafrate, 2006). The response was taken from 1154 female students, out of them 420 students are studying 8 th class, 352 are 9 th and 382 are 10 th class. All the students are studying in Government high schools located in and around the Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India. The students were asked to respond for a question “Are you getting anger frequently/sometimes/ never. Statistical tools were used to analyze the data. Regarding the high degree of anger the highest percentage was 31.03 and in the case of low degree 32.76%. Relation between a high degree of anger and health were well established. So, awareness shall be created among the students about the impacts of anger and related coping strategies.

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