Interparental hostility and children’s externalizing symptoms: Attention to anger as a mediator.

Anger and Hostility as Primary Externalizing Features of Depression in College Men

Aggression Questionnaire hostility scale predicts anger in response to mistreatment.

We tested the hypotheses that the hostility and anger scales of the Buss and Perry (1992) [Buss, A. H. & Perry, M. (1992). The Aggression Questionnaire. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 452-459.] Aggression Questionnaire would predict anger in college students in response to mistreatment. We found low and high hostility groups did not differ in anger at baseline or after comple...

Anger-related dysregulation as a factor linking childhood physical abuse and interparental violence to intimate partner violence experiences.

OBJECTIVE Childhood family violence exposure is associated with increased risk for experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) in adulthood, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain inadequately understood. Difficulties with emotion regulation may be one factor that helps to explain this relationship. METHOD Childhood physical abuse and interparental violence, as well as subseq...

Impulsive responses to emotion as a transdiagnostic vulnerability to internalizing and externalizing symptoms.

INTRODUCTION This study explored the hypothesis that impulsive reactions to heightened emotion may reflect a transdiagnostic vulnerability to both externalizing and internalizing symptoms. METHODS A sample of undergraduates completed self-report measures of aggression, borderline personality disorder symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and alcohol problems, and a subset completed interviews that asse...

Interpersonal rejection sensitivity in childhood sexual abuse survivors: mediator of depressive symptoms and anger suppression.

This study investigated whether interpersonal rejection sensitivity serves a mediating role between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and three long-term psychological correlates of CSA in adult female survivors: depressive symptoms, anger suppression, and attenuated emotional expression. Interpersonal rejection sensitivity has been shown to be a risk factor for the development of depression and is ...