Effectiveness of stress inoculation and communicative skill trainings on anger among secondary school teachers in Education District II, Lagos State

Abstract

Anger is a very common emotion for teachers with potential adverse effects for themselves and their students. Anger among secondary  school teachers remains relatively under explored area of research. Anger amid teachers need to be addressed for it can contribute to  negative classroom atmosphere; hindering students' cognitive and emotional development. Study examined the effectiveness of stress  inoculation and communicative skill trainings among secondary school teachers in Education District II, Lagos State. The research design  used for the study was the quasi experimental pretest-posttest control group. The population comprised of all teachers in Education  District II of Lagos State. Simple random and purposive sampling was used to select a sample size of 71 consisting of 29 male and 42  female. The Perceived Stress Scale and Clinical Anger Scale were used to collect relevant data. Data collected were analyzed using mean,  standard deviation, mean difference and analysis of covariance. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study found  out that there is a significant difference in the post-test mean scores on anger among participants exposed to stress inoculation training,  communicative skill training and control group. Also, it was observed that there exist no gender difference in the post-test mean scores  on anger among participants across the treatment and the control groups. It was recommended that regular training on stress  inoculation training and communicative skill training should be used to mitigate the effect of stress encountered at work.