Question

Jackson acknowledges having serious anger problems. He says his father had a terrible temper and that he t simply seems to have inherited that characteristic. When he lived at home, Jackson would lift weights or run when he got angry and his father was a believer in venting, but neither of these really seems to work well for Jackson. What does research show about anger management?

Answer 1

Answer: It displays that exercise or work-out and venting increase arousal towards the anger to make it worse.

Explanation:

Venting is expression of emotion by releasing it and getting it out of the mind and body .It is depicts that it makes anger more worse than before state. Exercising to manage anger is also not the doing a prominent job of reducing it.

According to the question, it can be seen that venting and weight-lifting is not helping in managing the anger rather it is increasing it. Thus, Jackson's effort of exercising and his father believing in venting is making the situation bad as there is increase in arousal due to such act.