title: Evaluation of a domain-specific anger expression assessment strategy.
abstract: Previous studies have shown that self-reports of an individual's anger expression vary between the home and the work domain. The aim of this study was to investigate the validity of such self-reports by comparing them with reports of intimate partners and work colleagues in the respective domain. Participants (N= 86) rated their anger expression on the general and on domain-specific versions of the State-Trait-Anger Expression Inventory (Spielberger, 1988). The self-rated anger-out-home scores correlated highly with partner ratings of anger-out-home scores (r = .61) and colleague ratings of anger-out-work scores correlated substantially with self-rated anger-out-work scores (r = .54). A similar but weaker correlation pattern emerged for anger control but not for anger-in. Self-other correspondence was higher for the domain-specific anger expression assessment than for the general anger expression assessment. These results demonstrate that the domain-specific strategy for the assessment of self-reported anger expression can validly measure differences in anger expression in different domains.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. bongard@psych.uni-frankfurt.de
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bongard
authors.forename: Nina M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seip
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: al'Absi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000786:Anger; D019260:Expressed Emotion; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010556:Personality Tests; D012647:Self-Assessment; D017678:Sex Distribution; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult