The present study examines the moderating effects of the anger characteristics of violent husbands on the relationships between a set of predictors and both psychological and physical husband violence. Based on data from 76 married violent men recruited through community organizations that work with abusive males, a series of moderated multiple regression analyses showed that anger repression a...

Psychological distress is the combine effect of depression, anxiety and stress. The present study explored the variables like psychological distress (depression, anxiety, stress) and components of anger as predictors of hypertension development. Total sample of 360 participants, outdoor hypertensive patients N = 216 between ages 3060, and their age matched healthy control group N= 144, was take...

This study investigated the effects of self-anger on rumination and mental health (depression and anxiety). In study 1, a scale to measure self-anger was developed by the review of previous studies and survey interviews. Exploratory factor analysis identified one factor of self-anger. The reliability and validity of the scale were confirmed by internal consistency measures and correlations with...

Using multilevel modeling, the authors examined the impact of antisocial personality characteristics on the effectiveness of cognitive–behavioral anger management group treatment among 86 veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. A wide range of forms of anger, as well as use of physical aggression, decreased during treatment. As predicted, antisocial personality characteristics were associa...

We investigate the role of the intensity of anger displayed by customers on the tendencies of service agents to award compensation in conditions of low and high power distance (PD). We research this issue from two different perspectives using two studies. In Study 1 we implement a macro-level approach to test the impact of customer anger intensity on compensation in two countries – Singapore (h...

Scholars have argued that anger expressed by participants in mediation is counterproductive; yet, there is also reason to believe that expressions of anger can be productive. The authors tested these competing theories of emotion by using data from online mediation. Results show that expression of anger lowers the resolution rate in mediation and that this effect occurs in part because expressi...

This report focuses on an automatic estimation of speakers’ anger emotion degree. Two kinds of pseudo-dialogs were held to collect spontaneous anger utterances during the natural Japanese dialog. In order to quantify the anger degree of utterances, a six-scale subjective evaluation was conducted to grade every utterance according to an anger emotion degree by twelve evaluators. With this data s...