Objective This study compared the symptomatic emotional traits of elderly South Korean patients with hwa-byung and those with depression. Methods We enrolled 58 patients with hwa-byung, 180 patients with depression, and 181 healthy control subjects. All participants completed the Hwa-byung Scale, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Geriatric Depression Sc...

Objectives: The purpose of the present research was explaining the anger in people with social anxiety based on their impulsivity and risk perception, considering this atypical pattern. Methods:. The present study is a cross sectional one. The research population includes all students of Arak University in which 450 individuals were selected based on convenience sampling. Firstly, the Social P...

OBJECTIVE To assess psychological and psychophysiological correlates of emotion recognition and anger experience in participants with traumatic brain injury (TBI). PARTICIPANTS Twenty participants with TBI presenting with anger problems and 22 healthy controls. PROCEDURES Participants were administered tasks assessing emotion recognition (The French Evaluation Task) and anger expression (An...

ANGER EXPRESSION: EVALUATING THE CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF SEVERALEMOTION REGULATION MEASURESby MATTHEW J. JASINSKIDecember 2013Advisor: Dr. Mark A. LumleyMajor: Psychology (Clinical)Degree: Master of ArtsResearchers have used the Anger Expression Inventory (AEI), Ambivalence ofEmotional Expression Questionnaire (AEQ), and Toronto Alexithymia Scale 20 (TAS)se...

Although models of emotion have focused on the relationship between anger and approach motivation associated with aggression, anger is also related to withdrawal motivation. Anger-out and anger-in styles are associated with psychopathology and may disrupt the control of attention within the context of negatively valenced information. The present study used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) ...

This study mapped the characteristics of angry college student drivers and provided a test of state-trait anger theory applied to anger while driving. Compared to low anger drivers, high anger drivers reported: (1) more frequent and intense anger in daily driving and more intense anger in response to commonly occurring (e.g., normal traffic and stuck in rush hour traffic) and their personally m...

The study was designed to assess the frequency and intensity of patients' anger directed toward various potential targets and how intensity of anger toward different targets was related to the chronic pain experience. Ninety-six chronic pain patients who were referred for a comprehensive evaluation completed questionnaires to assess their levels of anger, pain, distress, and disability. Approxi...

While our culture constantly evokes anger, it also places constraints on the expression of anger. The constraints for women are different, and more restrictive, than those for men. Women’s assigned subordinate position generates anger. Women’s traditional roles and internalized cultural concepts of “femininity,” however, entwine to characterize their expressions of anger as pathological. Men, i...

AIM To determine the effect of anger management levels and communication skills of emergency department staff on their frequency of being exposed to violence. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey between 11 April and 15 October 2013 by using a questionnaire including descriptive features, anger management scale, and communica...

Increasing evidence suggests that the visual representations of different emotional facial expressions overlap. Here we used an adaptation paradigm to investigate overlap of anger, disgust and fear expressions. In Experiment 1, participants categorized faces morphed from neutral to anger or neutral to disgust after adaptation to expressions of anger, disgust, and fear. Adaptation to expressions...