The Anger Management Scale: Development and Preliminary Psychometric Properties

Violence and Victims - Tập 17 Số 4 - Trang 383-402 - 2002
Sandra M. Stith1, Sherry Hamby
1Department of Human Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Falls Church, 22043, USA.

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This article introduces the Anger Management Scale (AMS). Managing anger constructively without violence is at the core of many treatment programs for domestic violence offenders and prevention programs for youth. There is no measure, however, specifically developed to monitor these skills. The AMS was designed to assess very concrete, specific cognitions and behaviors that can increase or decrease anger in intimate partner relationships and therefore influence the respondent’s level of partner violence. In addition to the full 36-item scale, there are 20-item and 12-item short forms. The AMS has four subscales: Escalating Strategies (behaviors that increase reactivity to the partner), Negative Attributions (cognitions such as blame or negative intentions attributed to the partner of the respondent), Self-Awareness (awareness of physiological changes indicating rising anger), and Calming Strategies (behaviors that decrease reactivity to the partner). Preliminary psychometric data based on a college student sample (n= 475) show a meaningful factor structure, good reliability (α .70 to .87), and good construct validity.

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