The impact of anger reduction on burnout in pastors serving a tristate area of the Church of God (Anderson)

Dale E French

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The impact of anger reduction on burnout in pastors serving a tristate area of the Church of God (Anderson)

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Dale E French. The Impact of Anger Reduction On Burnout In Pastors Serving a Tristate Area of the Church of God (anderson). Asbury Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/85cf88a2-7a17-4d41-afa7-054d7b286824.

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D. E. French. The impact of anger reduction on burnout in pastors serving a tristate area of the Church of God (Anderson). https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/85cf88a2-7a17-4d41-afa7-054d7b286824

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Dale E French. The Impact of Anger Reduction On Burnout In Pastors Serving a Tristate Area of the Church of God (anderson). Asbury Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/85cf88a2-7a17-4d41-afa7-054d7b286824.

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Abstract

This study focused on the relationship between anger and pastoral burnout, expecting to discover a correlation between the two. Two groups were formed by self-selection from the Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio tristate area of the Church of God (Anderson). One group participated in an anger-reduction workshop and the other group served as a control group. Levels of anger and burnout were measured in both groups before and after the workshop intervention. Classic hostility and anger studies over the past five decades served as the foundation for the study. From the discovery of Type A behavior in the 1950s, research has identified anger (hostility), along with stress, as primary factors in coronary heart disease. Developing from this base, the study measured the effect of the Lifeskills intervention on anger reduction, and its relationship to the slowing of burnout. The study revealed a significant positive correlation between the reduction of anger and burnout. Although the study sample represents only 3.9% of the total population, a trend is indicated that begs further investigation. The Lifeskills intervention workshop proved moderately successful in raising self-awareness, offering practical and usable coping strategies, and helping participants to reduce their level of anger, as well as their level of burnout. A more representative sampling of the population is called for to discover whether the results of this study are consistent with that population.

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