Abstract:

Humans have felt many emotions such as love, fear, hatred and anger since the day they existed. There is a fine line between the functionality of anger and its destructiveness in human life. Because the feeling of anger and anger behavior cause interpersonal problems and can turn into a negative interaction. The functionality of anger depends on its ability to be used, its ability to control, and its restraint. If it is destructive, it can cause poor decision-making of the mind and the closure of solutions, the formation of hostility and other feelings related to hostility, problems in human relations in general, and physiological and psychological diseases between the parties. When bigoted behaviors and anger are combined, its destructiveness can have destructive consequences between groups and communities in society, rather than interpersonal relations. Emotions and behaviors such as fear, anger, violence, prejudice and bigotry, which are classified as negative in human life, trigger each other and sometimes one of them is the cause and sometimes the result of the other. The importance in human life is the functional aspects of these emotions. When these feelings and behaviors go beyond functionality and become destructive, they appear as a problem that causes individual psychological and physiological problems, and when they become widespread in society, they become a problem that causes social violence. While being transferred from generation to generation as an emotional atmosphere, they leave people under their influence until the end of their lives as a result of their internalization. This study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between anger, political bigotry, forms of fear, and violence. The research was carried out according to the relational screening model of quantitative research. The universe of the research was composed of people with high political bigotry, according to purposive sampling. The sample group consists of 423 people residing in Elazig, who are described as political bigots by themselves and their environment. In the research, the "Trait Anger-Anger Style Scale" and the political bigotry scale prepared by scanning the literature and a questionnaire consisting of demographic questions were used. As a result of the research, there is a significant relationship between anger and smoking status, anger out and being the father's biological/step, fear of being criticized, fear of being ridiculed, showing violence to others, showing violence to oneself, and trusting only one's own strength, skills and knowledge. There is generally a low or moderate positive and significant relationship between anger and its sub-dimensions and political bigotry sub-dimensions.

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