Exposure to violence in community healthcare: Moderating effects of anger expression and anger suppression

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Leather ◽  
A. Santos ◽  
S. Chua
Keyword(s):  
Anger Expression ◽  
Exposure To Violence ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Anger Suppression ◽  
Community Healthcare

High and Low Trait Anger, and the Recognition of Anger Problems

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 851-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raúl J. Alcázar ◽  
Jerry L. Deffenbacher ◽  
Laura Hernández Guzmán ◽  
Graciela I. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Anger Expression ◽  
Trait Anger ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Anger Control ◽  
Anger Suppression ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Emotionally Focused ◽  
High Trait

This study compared three groups of people: (a) high trait anger individuals who recognized personal anger problems (HR); (b) high trait anger individuals who did not recognize personal anger problems (HNR); and (c) low trait anger individuals not reporting personal anger problems (LNR). Compared to LNR participants, HR and HNR groups reported more anger-out (i.e., outward negative expression of anger such as arguing with others), anger-in (i.e., anger suppression and harboring grudges), greater desire to use and actual use of physically aggressive anger expression (e.g., pushing or shoving someone), and less anger control-in (i.e., emotionally focused strategies to lower anger such as relaxation) and anger control-out (i.e., behaviorally focused strategies such as being patient with others). HR individuals reported more trait anger (i.e., higher propensity to experience anger) and less anger control-out than the HNR group. Gender did not relate to the recognition of anger problems. Findings were discussed with regard to theory and clinical implications.

High implicit self‐esteem is not necessarily advantageous: discrepancies between explicit and implicit self‐esteem and their relationship with anger expression and psychological health

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Schröder‐Abé ◽  
Almut Rudolph ◽  
Astrid Schütz
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Anger Expression ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Anger Suppression ◽  
Impaired Health ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Two studies investigated how discrepancies between implicit and explicit self‐esteem are related to mental and physical health. We found that, compared to congruent self‐esteem, discrepant self‐esteem was related to more anger suppression, a more depressive attributional style, more nervousness, and more days of impaired health. The result applies not only to fragile (high explicit, low implicit) self‐esteem, but also to damaged (low explicit, high implicit) self‐esteem. These findings show that high implicit self‐esteem is not necessarily advantageous. In individuals with low explicit self‐esteem having high implicit self‐esteem was related to more health problems than having low implicit self‐esteem. Taken together the results suggest that discrepancies between implicit and explicit SE are detrimental to mental and physical health. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

High Trait Anger Mexican Youth: Characteristics, Parental Anger, and Counseling Needs

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raúl J. Alcázar-Olán ◽  
Jerry L. Deffenbacher
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Anger Expression ◽  
Trait Anger ◽  
Anger Control ◽  
Anger Suppression ◽  
Positive Coping ◽  
Trait Theory ◽  
Counseling Needs ◽  
High Trait ◽  
Mexican Youth

AbstractThis study compared three groups of Mexican youth: (1) high trait anger adolescents recognizing anger problems (HR); (2) high trait anger youth not reporting anger problems (HNR); and (3) low trait anger adolescents not reporting anger problems (LNR). The HR group was sizable, representing 21% of all students and 72% of high anger youth. Compared to LNR, high anger groups (HR and HNR) experienced more angry feelings, engaged in anger suppression (e.g., holding anger in and harboring grudges) and aggressive anger expression (e.g., urges to aggression, physical aggressive anger expression toward others and toward self and objects), and reported lower internal and external anger control (e.g., relaxing and controlling one’s behavior when angry). High anger groups also reported greater trait anger in both parents than LNR, suggesting parent’s anger is a risk factor for anger in adolescents. HR and HNR groups, however, did not differ on any variable. Findings for high anger groups supported the intensity, aggression, and reduced positive coping hypotheses of State-Trait Anger Theory. Findings were also discussed in terms of the counseling needs of high anger Mexican youth and State-Trait Theory.

scholarly journals Links Between Childhood Physical Abuse and Intimate Partner Aggression: The Mediating Role of Anger Expression

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Maneta ◽  
Shiri Cohen ◽  
Marc Schulz ◽  
Robert J. Waldinger
Keyword(s):  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Anger Expression ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Childhood Physical Abuse ◽  
Partner Aggression ◽  
Anger Suppression ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Actor Partner Interdependence Model ◽  
Intimate Partner Aggression

Research linking childhood physical abuse (CPA) and adult intimate partner aggression (IPA) has focused on individuals without sufficient attention to couple processes. In this study, 109 couples reported on histories of CPA, IPA, and anger expression. Actor–partner interdependence model (APIM) was used to examine links between CPA and revictimization and perpetration of IPA, with anger suppression as a potential mediator. Women’s CPA histories were associated with more physical aggression towards and more revictimization by partners. Men’s CPA histories were only associated at the trend level with their revictimization. Anger suppression fully mediated the link between women’s CPA and both revictimization and perpetration of IPA. Findings suggest that women with CPA histories are more prone to suppress anger, which leaves them at greater risk for revictimization and perpetration of IPA.

scholarly journals Assessing the Linkage between Exposure to Violence and Victimization, Coping, and Adjustment among Urban Youth: Findings from a Research Study on Adolescents

Children ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zina McGee ◽  
Chelsea Alexander ◽  
Khasya Cunningham ◽  
Celine Hamilton ◽  
Courtney James
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Internalizing Symptoms ◽  
Exposure To Violence ◽  
African American Adolescents ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Adjustment Problems ◽  
Emotional Outcomes ◽  
And Coping

From examinations of the literature on the influence that exposure to violence and coping strategies have on delinquent behavior and emotional outcomes, this study addresses the association between violent victimization and the moderating effects of coping strategies among 500 African-American adolescents who exhibit both externalizing behaviors such as delinquency and internalizing symptoms, including anxiety and depression. The investigation examines the development of the aforementioned adjustment problems in response to victimization, and the findings indicate a relationship between the specific indices of victimization, including peer violence, and the symptomatology and coping mechanisms utilized by the youth in this study. Suggestions for future research in this area are discussed.

Depression in Women as Related to Anger and Mutuality in Relationships

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth D. Sperberg ◽  
Sally D. Stabb
Keyword(s):  
College Women ◽  
Anger Expression ◽  
Relation Theory ◽  
Emotional Expressivity ◽  
Anger Suppression ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Women's Relationships ◽  
Partner Relationships

Self-in-relation theory (Jordan, Kaplan, Miller, Stiver, & Surrey, 1991) proposes that a lack of mutuality in women's relationships predisposes them to depression and inhibits their ability to acknowledge and address effectively emotions such as anger. Research linking anger to depression has not examined women's emotional expressivity within the context of their partner relationships. Women's depression as a function of both their level of anger suppression or inappropriate anger expression and the level of perceived relationship mutuality was studied in a sample of 223 college women, aged 18 to 54. Lower levels of mutuality and higher levels of suppressed or inappropriately expressed anger were associated with depression. Moreover, mutuality made contributions to predicting depression beyond that explained by anger. Lower mutuality was also related to higher anger suppression, but unrelated to inappropriately expressed anger.

Anger suppression: its relationship to β-adrenergic receptor sensitivity and stress-induced changes in blood pressure

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 673-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Mills ◽  
Joel E. Dimsdale
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Adrenergic Receptor ◽  
Blood Pressure Response ◽  
Anger Expression ◽  
Receptor Function ◽  
Receptor Sensitivity ◽  
Anger Suppression ◽  
Cardiovascular Illness ◽  
Induced Changes

SynopsisWhile studies from diverse fields of research suggest a relationship between problems expressing anger and cardiovascular illness, few studies have provided a potential pathophysiological link of such a relationship. Forty-five males were classified according to one of three anger expression categories: those who did not suppress their anger (N = 13), those who partially suppressed their anger (N = 19), and those who definitely suppressed their anger (N = 13). For each, we determined lymphocyte β-adrenergic receptor function and blood pressure responsiveness to a standardized mathematics stressor. Those subjects who routinely suppressed their expression of anger had increased β-adrenergic receptor sensitivity (P = 0·01) (isoproterenol-stimulated cyclic AMP production) and a greater systolic blood pressure response to the stressor (P = 0·001). Anger suppression was unrelated to the subject's age, weight, or socioeconomic status. These findings may be germane to prior clinical and epidemiologic observations relating anger expression and cardiovascular illness.

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