Cognitive Therapy & Research. Vol
22(1) Feb 1998, 63-74. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, US
Cognitive-behavioral therapy in the
treatment of anger: A meta-analysis.
Beck, Richard; Fernandez, Ephrem.
Anger has come to be recognized as a
significant social problem worthy of clinical attention and
systematic research. In the last two decades,
cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has emerged as the most
common approach to anger management. The overall efficacy of
this treatment has not been ascertained, and therefore, it was
decided to conduct a meta-analysis of this literature. Based on
50 studies incorporating 1,640 subjects, it was found that CBT
produced a grand mean weighted effect size of .70, indicating
that the average CBT recipient was better off than 76% of
untreated subjects in terms of anger reduction. This effect was
statistically significant, robust, and relatively homogeneous
across studies. These findings represent a quantitative
integration of 20 years of research into a coherent picture of
the efficacy of CBT for anger management. The results also serve
as an impetus for continued research on the treatment of anger.
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