Background and purpose: The increasing statistics of drug addiction, especially its spread among teenagers and students, show that the young generation and students, who should contribute to the development and progress of society, are wasted in the trap of addiction. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out extensive and in-depth investigations on the identification of the underlying factors of addiction, therefore, considering that prevention is better than treatment, in the present study, the aim of teaching emotion control and anger control skills is to prepare for addiction. It was paid in students. Materials and work methods: A semi-experimental method of pre-test-post-test type was conducted with control and experimental groups. The statistical population of the research was made up of all the second high school male students of District 2 of Zahedan city with a number of 3500 students, the final number of which was 60 students randomly divided into 3 experimental groups with 45 people (each group 15 people) and a control group with 15 people were selected as the sample size. In order to collect data, Wade and Butcher (1992) addiction readiness questionnaires, excitement seeking test and anger control questionnaire were used. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed. The data obtained from the questionnaires were analyzed at two levels of descriptive and inferential statistics including Levine's test and covariance analysis through SPSS23 software. Findings: Considering that the significance level is less than 0.01, it can be concluded that the variable variances of addiction readiness are homogeneous. In other words, there is a significant difference between the two groups before the test and after the test. Discussion and conclusion: The findings showed that the training of emotion control skills and suppressed anger control was effective on readiness for addiction in the second high school boys of Zahedan.
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Special Received: 2025/04/5 | Accepted: 2024/11/30 | Published: 2024/11/30