The role of anger in hypertension.
We report a study about the administration of two Dutch questionnaires (the State-Trait Anger Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) to a sample of patients with essential hypertension and to a matched control group. Analyses of the test results demonstrated that some significant differences could be observed in the levels of anxiety and anger. Special attention was paid to certain test-item answers, showing that hypertensives, although feeling irritated and angry, retreat to some extent from showing their anger.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000786:Anger; D001007:Anxiety; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000523:psychology*; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors