The effects of motivational training on state anger and aggressive impulses among people varying in trait anger.

State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory

The State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI; Spielberger, 1988) involves an integration of two previously developed inventories, the State-Trait Anger scale and the Anger Expression (AX) Scale. Five independent subscales comprise the STAXI, including State Anger, Trait Anger, Anger-in, Anger-out, and Anger Control. A sixth scale involves an arithmetic combination of the Anger-in, Anger-ou...

Mediating Role of Anger Rumination in the Associations between Mindfulness, Anger-In, and Trait Anger

While there are several studies that have investigated the specific relationships between mindfulness, anger rumination, anger-in, and trait anger, no study has investigated all these relationships simultaneously. Therefore, this study examined all relationships between these variables employing a cross-sectional design. Consistent with previous research, we hypothesized that (1) mindfulness wi...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

The Effects of Anger and Anger Regulation on Negotiation

The Effectiveness of Self-Compassion Training in Students’ Anger Control

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of self-compassion training in controlling anger among junior high school male students in Yazd. The statistical population of the study comprised all junior high school boys in Yazd from among whom 150 students were selected by random multi-stage cluster sampling method. The Anger Control Questionnaire was administered to them and th...