| dc.contributor.author | Chambers, Laura Anne. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:35:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2000 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINQ57361 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55711 | |
| dc.description | Past research has found that expressing anger outwardly in an antagonistic fashion and suppressing anger have detrimental effects on health, such as increased blood pressure. However, there may be more than these two dimensions of anger expression that have effects on health. One such anger expression dimension is anger discussion. Because of the dearth of information on anger discussion, a series of studies was conducted which sought to develop and validate a new measure of verbal anger behavior and test its ability to predict resting blood pressure. | en_US |
| dc.description | Two studies were conducted to examine the psychometric properties including factor structure and convergent and discriminant validity, of a new measure of verbal anger behavior, the Anger Behavior - Verbal Scale (AB-V). A third study was then conducted to examine the relation between AB-V subscales and resting blood pressure. In both Study 1 (N = 487) and Study 2 (N = 257), university undergraduate students completed a variety of anger expression and experience measures, scales assessing mood and personality scales, as well as the AB-V. Principal components analyses of the AB-V items revealed 3 factors that demonstrated good internal consistency estimates: Constructive Anger Behavior - Verbal scale (12 items; CAB-V; alpha = 0.90 and 0.89), Destructive Anger Behavior - Verbal Justification scale (6 items; DAB-VJ; alpha = 0.84 and 0.86) and Destructive Anger Behavior - Verbal Rumination scale (5 items; DAB-VR; alpha = 0.77 and 0.78). Results also indicated that DAB-VJ and DAB-VR were positively related to all anger expression and experience measures, whereas CAB-V was not. CAB-V was positively related to Agreeableness and Conscientiousness and DAB-VR was positively related to Trait anxiety, depression and Neuroticism. Implications for these anger behavior styles for health are discussed. | en_US |
| dc.description | The third study hypothesized that destructive anger behavior (DAB-VJ and DAB-VR) should be related to increased resting blood pressure as age increases whereas CAB-V should be related to decreased resting blood pressure as age increases. A total of 108 persons (49 men and 59 women, aged 18 to 55 years) who were not currently taking medication for high blood pressure volunteered to complete a number of anger/hostility questionnaires, including the self-report DAB-VR before their blood pressure was obtained during 18 minutes of rest. Results indicated that high scores on the self-report DAB-VR significantly interacted with age to predict increased resting blood pressure after controlling for standard hypertension risk factors and other anger/hostility measures. A plot of the data revealed that for older participants, but not younger participants, higher DAB-VR scores predicted higher resting blood pressure. Self-reporting that one ruminates about anger was therefore shown to have deleterious effects on blood pressure levels. CAB-V and DAB-VJ did not significantly predict blood pressure. | en_US |
| dc.description | Two other report types, i.e.: friend-report and observer-report AB-V scales were also examined in the third study to provide further construct validity of the AB-V scale. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 2000. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Psychology, Clinical. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Psychology, Physiological. | en_US |
| dc.title | The relation among self-reported constructive and destructive anger, verbal behavior and resting blood pressure. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
