How we look at others in anger: development of the McLinton Interpersonal Domain-specific Anger Instrument (MIDAI)
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2013
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McLinton, S.S.
Dollard, M.F.
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Penrod, M.G.
Paulk, S.N.
Paulk, S.N.
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Source details - Title: Psychology of anger: new research, 2013 / Penrod, M.G., Paulk, S.N. (ed./s), Ch.1, pp.1-26
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Interpersonal anger focuses on how an individual's potential to anger may be influenced by the characteristics of other people, specifically the perpetrator of anger-eliciting behaviour and their environment. This chapter describes the process used to generate and validate a new anger measure. To develop an instrument to measure this recently operationalised anger construct we employed the Delphi technique, gaining consensus with an international panel of 15 anger experts from seven countries. Face validity and readability were assessed with a group of 21 postgraduate psychology students. The final five scales each dealt with a different target individual, forming the McLinton Interpersonal Domain-specific Anger Instrument (MIDAI). The MIDAI was piloted in a random stratified community sample (Australia; N=301) to test psychometric properties and reliabilities, and to explore the factor structure. The second wave of longitudinal data (Australia; N=204) displayed good test-retest reliability, and a validation sample of cross-cultural data (Japan; N=300) confirmed the two factor structure of each MIDAI scale; overt hostility and covert provocation. Results show significant differences in anger toward different targets, and indicate interpersonal anger to be a trait rather than transient state. It suggests that individuals may have different predispositions to anger according to characteristics of the target and the environment (domain) in which it occurs.
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