An Experimental Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Motivational Therapy on Aggression Management Combating Road Rage Among the Late Adolescents of Selected Areas in Bhopal (M.P.)

Abstract

Purpose: To find out the effectiveness of structured motivational therapy on aggression management combating road rage among late adolescent population. Materials and methods: The study was carried out using a quantitative, true experimental design. The present study was conducted in Karond and Bhanpur areas of Bhopal city (MP). The total sample consists of 60 in numbers of which 30 samples belonged to the experimental group and 30 samples belonged to the control group. Using a multi stage sampling technique, two groups were selected through simple randomization (lottery) method and randomly assigned as experimental group and control group. Pre-test is administered into both the groups, structured motivational therapy on aggression management combating road rage is applied only to the experimental group but no intervention is applied to control group, after four weeks post-test is administered to both control and experimental groups. Results: After the comparison of mean pre-test and post-test levels of driving anger among participants in experimental group it’s found that there is a mean difference of 21.79 between pre-test and post-test with t-value of 18.08, which is evident that there is a significant difference in the levels of driving anger before and after the introduction of motivational therapy. Conclusion: Anger reduction therapies and techniques are very essential in preventing road rage related problems and enhancing well being of mankind overall. Present study brings to light on sustained, genuine and committed efforts in dealing with road rage among adolescents through structured motivational therapy. The study findings showed that the participants were undergoing varying levels of driving anger. Their driving anger levels have been reduced after the intervention of structured motivational therapy which has been statistically proven. Hence, structured motivational therapy is one of the reliable techniques in dealing with aggressive driving. Key words: Aggression, Driving anger, Late adolescents, Aggression management, Road rage, Structured motivational therapy.