Effects of family cognitive therapy on aggressive behavior, family functioning, and marital quality in patients with major depression

Table 3 Comparison of the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2 scores between the two groups before and after treatment

Item	Observation group, n = 90		Control group, n = 88		Before treatment		After treatment
	Before treatment	After treatment	Before treatment	After treatment	t	P value	t	P value
State anger	34.7 ± 7.6	26.5 ± 6.8a	33.8 ± 6.9	30.2 ± 4.7a	0.594	0.554	2.970	0.004
Angry feelings	14.2 ± 3.5	10.7 ± 3.4a	13.9 ± 4.1	12.1 ± 2.8a	0.385	0.701	2.137	0.035
Angry language	12.4 ± 4.7	8.8 ± 4.2a	13.2 ± 5.4	12.9 ± 4.6	0.716	0.476	4.532	< 0.001
Angry actions	8.1 ± 2.6	7.0 ± 1.9	8.8 ± 3.2	7.5 ± 1.7a	1.181	0.241	1.327	0.188
Trait anger	28.2 ± 5.9	26.6 ± 5.7	27.6 ± 6.3	27.1 ± 4.5	0.478	0.634	0.429	0.669
Aggressive behavior	11.4 ± 2.3	10.1 ± 1.8a	10.9 ± 3.1	10.5 ± 2.2	0.908	0.366	0.978	0.331
Aggressive reaction	16.8 ± 3.6	16.5 ± 4.1	16.0 ± 3.9	15.7 ± 4.6	1.037	0.303	0.896	0.373
Anger external expression	19.7 ± 5.1	18.0 ± 4.8	20.1 ± 4.9	19.3 ± 5.9	0.385	0.701	1.188	0.238
Anger internal expression	20.6 ± 3.3	19.5 ± 3.5	20.3 ± 4.6	18.2 ± 4.8	0.372	0.711	1.535	0.128
Control external expression	17.3 ± 4.2	21.7 ± 4.6a	16.3 ± 3.7	19.2 ± 3.8a	1.208	0.230	2.817	0.006
Control internal expression	16.5 ± 4.5	21.6 ± 4.8a	16.1 ± 4.2	18.9 ± 3.7a	0.441	0.660	2.980	0.004

^aP < 0.05, vs before treatment.

Data are mean ± SD.