the prevalence of anger rumination and its relationship with coping strategies and assertiveness in students

objectives: the aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of anger rumination and its relationship with coping strategies and assertiveness in students of mohaghegh ardebili university. methods: the present research was a descriptive correlational study. the study population consisted of all students enrolled in the academic year 1390-91 (n = 8344). in the first step, to determine the prevalence of anger rumination, 400 students were selected based on multistage cluster sampling method and sadolwsky’s anger rumination questionnaires was completed by students. next, 100 of these students were selected based on simple random sampling and the lazarus and folkman, coping strategies questionnaire, and the shrink assertiveness questionnaire were administered on them. data were analyzed by descriptive indicators, pearson’s correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. results: the results showed that the prevalence of anger rumination in students of mohaghegh ardabil university is 11%. anger rumination with problem-oriented coping strategies and assertiveness showed a negative and significant correlation while (anger rumination) with emotion-oriented coping strategies showed positive and significant correlation. also results of multiple regression analysis showed that emotion-oriented coping strategy and assertiveness could predict significantly the student's anger rumination. discussion:  since the identification of different kinds of obsessive and intrusive thoughts is important achieve to desirable control of thoughts, so, investigate of prevalence of anger rumination in order to manage it is valuable. so teaching problem-oriented coping and assertiveness ability as a factor of anger control could reduce the prevalence of anger rumination among students and thereby help to management vicious cycle of aggressive behavior.