According to Spielberg (1988), anger is defined as a basic emotion which occurs at particular moment before aggression or hostility. State characterized by subjective feelings that vary in intensity, from mild irritation annoyance intense fury and rage. On the other hand, trait willingness perceive wide range of situations annoying frustrating experience increased state anger. The has bee...

Health problems of the urban poor have been attributed to psychosocial effects of environmental stress. Testing such models requires an ability to measure neighborhood characteristics that make life stressful. The City Stress Inventory (CSI) uses self-report to assess perceived neighborhood disorder and exposure to violence. Data from an interracial sample of urban adolescents show the CSI to b...

While cognitive emotion regulation strategies are viewed as mental approaches which impact emotionality and decision making of individuals, they also mechanisms for controlling the level aggression. This purpose present study was to assess role well family structure with regard impacting aggression in Pakistani adolescents. A sample 300 (150 belonging joint 150 nuclear families) adolescents (ag...

This article reviews prospective evidence linking certain classes of person variables to multiple disease end points. Included in the review is a consideration of the effects of hostility and anger, emotional suppression, depression, fatalism, and pessimism on coronary heart disease, cancer, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. A model is presented that integrates several of these variables ...

The validity of the Dutch adaptation of the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory was investigated. On the basis of the ratings of the staff of a residential treatment center for adolescents with conduct disorders, two contrast groups (high versus low aggression) were formed. In all, 67 male adolescents participated in the study. The subscales of the inventory clearly discriminated between the two gr...

The present study assessed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, psychological distress, and subjective quality of life (QoL) in a group of 43 child Holocaust survivors and a community sample of 44 persons who had not personally experienced the Holocaust. The participants were administered the PTSD-Scale, the SCL-90, and the WHOQOL-Bref. Results showed that the child survivors had high...