Personality and anger among students

Abstract

The things that make people angry, how they feel angry and what people do when they are angry are not the same for all people. There is growing interest in the relationship between emotions and personality, which has led to integration in emotion and personality research. Personality as a pattern that relatively stable, consisting of unique traits, dispositions or characteristics within an individual that show some consistent measures about his/her behavior. The aim of the study was to explore relationship between personality and anger among students. The HEXACO Personality Inventory and Clinical Anger Scale were administered on 80 students’ participants age ranging from 18 to 25 years in Bijnor, U.P. Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used for statistical analysis of data. Result revealed that the Emotionality, Extraversion, consciousness and agreebleness were found to be significantly correlated.