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Scaling Study on Human Anger Research on anger has shown that people who tend to ruminate about past experiences that made them angry, focus attention on their angry moods, and think about the consequences and causes of episodes of anger they have experienced exhibit higher levels of the expression of anger and negative affectivity. Also, the perceptions of these individuals with regard to their social desirability and their satisfaction with life show strong correlations with anger rumination as measured by the Anger Rumination Scale (Sukhodolsky, et al., 2001). The development of the survey discussed in this brief paper included consideration of the perceptions that people have about their anger and angry episodes. An aspect of this type of perception is awareness -- in as much as an individual can be said to be self-aware during an angry outburst -- of signs of increasing irritability and precursor signs of impending anger.

The survey was also developed against the background of individual's experiences of post-outburst regret or remorse -- or simply a propensity to replay the situation that was a catalyst for the angry episode. Research on aggression in sports indicates that provocation...

Lightse, et al. (2011) found that individuals who exhibited low levels of self-efficacy, negative effect was shown to be strongly and inversely related to life satisfaction. In light of these findings, questions designed to measure the respondents' level of satisfaction with life and their sense of locus of control were used to lead the survey, the notion being that such questions might act as triggers to memories associated with past episodes of anger.
Survey Results

Figure 1. Reported Level of Satisfaction with Life

Figure 2. Expressed Belief in Forces Impacting Life Success

Figure 3. Percent of Respondents Reporting Anger Issues on Survey Questions 3-10

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Lightse, O.W., Maxwell, D.A., Nash, T.M., Rarey, E.B., McKinney, V.A. (2011). Self-control and self-efficacy for affect regulation as moderators of the negative affect-life satisfaction relationship. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Retrieved http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7600/is_201107/ai_n57803814/?tag=content;col1

Maxwell, J.P. (2004, July). Anger rumination: An antecedent of athlete aggression? Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 5 (3), 279-289. doi: 10.1016/S1469-0292(03)00007-4

Sukhodolsky, D.G., Golub, A., and Cromwell, E.N. (2001, October 1). Development and validation of the anger rumination scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 31 (5), 689-700. doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00171-9
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