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A 3 page paper reviewing the report of a study seeking to discover how ethnicity, sex and age affect teens’ anger and hostility scales. The authors sought to determine whether the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) is reliable for younger adolescents as well as older ones in which its reliability has been established. The study included children 11-16 years from black, Hispanic and white populations to find that the instrument does appear to be valid with each. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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File: CC6_KSnursRevAngerStu.rtf
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Meininger, Reyes, Liehr, Chan and Mueller (2003) sought to expand the populations in which The State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) has been shown to be
useful. The STAXI is a reliable and valid self-report questionnaire that has shown good results when used "among African and European Americans aged 13 years and older" (Meininger, et
al., 2003; p. 2). The instruments usefulness "among adolescents younger than 13 years and Hispanic American adolescents" (Meininger, et al., 2003; p. 2) had not been tested, however, and
the researchers sought to assess the STAXI among all three groups, giving special attention to the Hispanic teens. The authors used stratified quota
sampling techniques to select a sample of 394 public school students aged 11-16 years in Houston. The authors found similar results between older and younger Hispanic children, with results
from the 11-13 year group being greatly similar to those obtained from the 14-16 year group. In terms of internal consistency, there were no significant differences among the three
ethnic groups, though "Ethnicity and age had statistically significant main effects on the anger scales" (Meininger, et al., 2003; p. 2). Emotions and Health
The authors conclude that the anger-in scale of the STAXI may be less reliable for younger groups but that it is still valuable for assessing anger psychometrics in adolescents.
As nurses, the authors purpose is to identify how members of the three ethnic groups deal with anger as a means of more closely targeting health promotion activities among
those ethnic groups. They acknowledge that anger is normal for everyone, but that "emerging data suggest a relationship between how anger is experienced
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