Measures Reviewed in Detail
1.Buss/C0Durkee Hostility Inventory ( Buss & Durkee, 1957 )
2.Buss/C0Perry Aggression Questionnaire ( Buss & Perry, 1992 )
3.Anger Self-Report Questionnaire ( Reynolds, Walkey, & Green, 1994; Zelin, Adler, & Meyerson, 1972 )
4.Reaction Inventory ( Cho, Kim, Kim, Wang, & Chee, 2009; Evans & Stangeland, 1971 )
5.Novaco Anger Scale and Provocation Inventory ( Novaco, 1994, 2003 )
6.Multidimensional Anger Inventory ( Siegel, 1985, 1986 )
7.State/C0Trait Anger Expression Inventory /C02nd Edn. ( Spielberger, 1988, 1991, 1999 )
Measures Reviewed Briefly
1.Anger Disorders Scale ( DiGiuseppe & Tafrate, 2004 )
2.Anger Parameters Scale ( Fernandez, Vargas, & Garza, 2010, Fernandez, Arevalo, Vargas, & Torralba, 2014 )
3.Awareness and Expression of Anger Indicator ( Catchlove & Braha, 1985 )
4.Standardized Experience of Anger Measure ( Linden et al., 1997 )
5.Anger Control Inventory ( Hoshmand & Austin, 1987 )
6.Anger Discomfort Scale ( Sharkin & Gelso, 1991 )
7.Anger Related Reactions and Goals Inventory ( Kubiak, Wiedig-Allison, Zgoriecki, & Weber, 2011 )
8.Anger Readiness to Change Questionnaire ( Williamson, Day, Howells, Bubner, & Jauncey, 2003 )
9.Short Anger Measure (Gerace & Day, 2014)
OVER VIEW OF THE MEASURES
Not surprisingly, the first psychological measures of anger or hostility emerged out of the venerable
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory which has spawned many other meas ures of affect. Basically, sub-
sets of the 550 items of the MMPI were brought togeth er to form supplementary scales. The three anger
assessment tools originating from the MMPI were the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale (Ho Scale; Cook &
Medley, 1954 ), the Overcontrolled Hostility Scale (O-H Scale; Megargee, Cook, & M endelsohn, 1967 ), and the
Hostility & Direction of Hostility Questionnaire (HDHQ; Caine, Foulds, & Hope, 1967 ). The following psycho-
metric reviews do not elaborate on these MMPI-derived measures of anger because they are really supple-
mentary scales of a much broader instrument for assessi ng psychopathology. Second, these first generation
anger measures seem to have receded into relative obscurity. Third, these measures were generally used to
obtain overall scores of hostility ra ther than different dimensions of ange r. Nevertheless, from a historical
point of view, it is helpful to point out that this was the starting point in the psychometric assessment of
anger/hostility.
In the next section, we dedicate our efforts to reviewi ng seven self-report measures of anger or hostility
for which there is relatively abundant psychometric d ata. Generally, these have a longer history than other
instruments currently in use. We begin with the Buss /C0Durkee Hostility Inventory (BDHI; Buss & Durkee,
1957 ) and its successor, the Buss /C0Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ; Buss & Perry, 1992 ). This is
followed by the Anger Self-Report Questionnaire (ASR; Reynolds et al., 1994 ), the Reaction Inventory
(RI; Evans & Stangeland, 1971 ) including a Korean version ( Cho et al., 2009 ), the Novaco Anger Scale and
Provocation Inventory (NAS-PI; Novaco, 1994, 2003 ), the Multidimensional Anger Inventory (MAI; Siegel,
1986 ), and finally, the State /C0trait Anger Expression Invent ory-2nd Edition (STAXI-2; Spielberger, 1988, 1999 ).
In the subsequent section we provide brief summarie s of nine measures, most of them newer and with less
psychometric data. These include the Anger Disorders Scale (ADS; DiGiuseppe & Tafrate, 2004 ), the Anger
Parameters Scale (APS; Fernandez et al., 2010, 2014 ), the Awareness and Expression of Anger Indicator
(AEAI; Catchlove & Braha, 1985 ), the Standardized Experience of Anger Measure (SEAM; Linden et al.,
1997 ), the Anger Control Inventory (ACI; Hoshmand & Austin, 1987 ), the Anger Discomfort Scale
(ADS; Sharkin & Gelso, 1991 ), the Anger Related Reactions and Goals Inventory (ARGI; Kubiak et al., 2011 ),
the Anger Readiness to Change Questionnaire (AECQ; Williamson et al., 2003 ), and finally, the Short Anger
Measure (SAM; Gerace & Day, 2014).75 OVERVIEW OF THE MEASURES
II. EMOTIONAL DISPOSITIONS