Citation

Snell WE, McDonald K, Koch WR. Pers. Individ. Dif. 1991; 12(10): 1095-1104.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0191-8869(91)90039-E

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The nature of anger provoking experiences was investigated through the use of a multidimensional scaling (MDS) procedure. Content analysis of college students' responses to the question, "What makes you feel angry?" revealed 48 categories of anger eliciting experiences. MDS analysis indicated that these categories were characterized by three dimensions involving: (1) individual disappointments, inadequacies and failures related to unattained values, aims and goals; (2) frustrating events associated with the public, social aspects of the self; and (3) incidents associated with interpersonal exploitation. Additionally, the present investigation revealed that the relationship between a recent history of stress and angry life experiences was moderated by three types of variables: socially desirable and undesirable instrumental and expressive personality attributes; gender-role behaviors and preferences; and extraversion- introversion and neuroticism.