Effects of a nonviolent communication-based anger management program on psychiatric inpatients.
Archives of psychiatric nursing, 41, 87-95., 2022
Kim, J., & Kim, S.
DOI : 10.1016/j.apnu.2022.07.004
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Abstract: The aim of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the effects of an anger management programme based on NVC on self-esteem, anger expression and aggression in 44 psychiatric patients (experimental group: n = 21; control group: n = 24). The programme consisted of six sessions of 60 minutes each, using a pretest-posttest design with a non-equivalent control group, and subsequently analysed the effects of the intervention. The results showed statistically significant differences between the experimental and control groups in terms of anger expression and anger suppression.
Comment: There is a control group in this study which does not follow NVC training and which does not follow another training course on anger, for example. It would have been ideal if the control group had undergone other training in order to be able to distinguish the specific effects of NVC from those of undergoing training. In addition, the subjects were tested with explicit questionnaires on anger, which could create a bias in the declaration of those who had taken the NVC training, with a tendency to want to improve the results, out of complacency.
Perspective: It would be relevant to evaluate the effects of this training at 6 months, for example, to measure the longer-term impact. And to use implicit tests to avoid complacency bias.