The purpose of this study was to present the socialization model of adolescent''s anger by analyzing the causal effect among mother''s reactions to early adolescent''s anger, anger management styles and problem behaviors according to the types of problem behaviors. It also provided useful data for adolescent''s development of anger management styles, the guidance to problem behaviors and counseling parents.

For the purpose of this study, the hypotheses were as follows;

First, mother''s anger supportive and anger rejected reactions not only have a direct effect on internalizing problem behaviors, but also have an indirect effect on them mediated by adolescent''s anger management styles that are anger coping, anger-in and anger-out.

Second, mother''s anger supportive and anger rejected reactions not only have a direct effect on externalizing problem behaviors, but also have an indirect effect on them mediated by adolescent''s anger management styles that are anger coping and anger-out.

The subjects were 460 adolescents who were 1st and 2nd grade in middle schools in Busan. Mother''s reactions to early adolescent''s anger, anger management styles and problem behaviors were measured through self-reported questionnaire. To complement the limits of existing scale, questions for mother''s reactions to early adolescent''s anger were added and revised through the preliminary survey. Anger supportive reactions include anger acceptance and anger coping. Anger rejected reactions include anger punishing, anger override, anger neglect and anger magnifing. The data was analyzed by SPSS 23 ver. and Amos program 23.0 ver.

The major findings through this study are as follows;

First, mother''s anger supportive reactions had an indirect effect on internalizing problem behaviors mediated by anger coping and anger-in. And mother''s anger rejected reactions had an indirect effect on internalizing problem behaviors mediated by anger-out.

Second, mother''s anger rejected reactions not only had a direct effect on externalizing problem behaviors, but also had an indirect effect them mediated by anger-out. And mother''s anger supportive reactions had an indirect effect on externalizing problem behaviors mediated by anger coping.

The implication of this study is as follows;

First, this study presented an empirical basis for the socialization model of anger that reflected a discrete emotions approach. And previous studies focused on parents'' reactions to negative emotions, whereas this study explored parents'' reactions focusing on anger among negative emotions.

Second, the findings of this study were divided into reduction path through which mother''s anger supportive reactions influences problem behaviors by anger coping and induction path through which mother''s anger rejected reactions influences problem behaviors by anger-out. This suggests that mother should decrease anger rejected reactions and increase anger supportive reactions to prevent problem behaviors in conflict with adolescent children. These findings are available to present parents'' role of responding to children''s anger in counseling parents.

Third, the findings of this study suggest that the strategies to improve the style of anger coping are needed in the program which prevents adolescent''s problem behaviors. The merit of this study is that provide intervention strategies for adolescents and parents according to the types of problem behaviors.

Forth, the advantage of this study is that parent-adolescent conflict was explored by emotional process and response of conflict focusing on not conflict frequency but parents'' reactions to adolescent''s anger.