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Deepika Modi and Nutankumar S.Thingujam
University of Pune, Pune
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The current study examined the relationship between anger, irrational thinking, and
physical health problems among married couples sampled from different parts of
India (N = 152). Participants completed validated measures of self-reported anger,
irrational thinking, and physical health status. The obtained Pearson’s correlations
showed significant associations between anger, irrational thinking, and physical
health status. Specifically, the results suggested that perception of physical health
problem during the last three months was correlated significantly with trait-anger,
trait-anger/temperament, trait-anger/reaction, anger-out, anger-in, need for comfort,
demand for fairness, other downing, and overall irrational thinking, but insignificant
with self-downing, need for achievement, need for appreciation. It was further
suggested that overall irrational thinking was correlated positively with trait anger,
anger-out, and anger-in, but negatively with anger control-out and anger control-in.
It is believed that this study may add knowledge about helping married couples in
managing anger and irrational thinking to reduce their minor physical health problems
in the Indian cultural context.
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