It is a battery consisting of 5 sections that aims to determine people's feelings, thoughts and attitudes about anger. It is Likert-type, scored between 1-5. Higher scores on the scale mean that the related dimension is thought/used more.
In the first dimension of this new scale, which was prepared as a five-point Likert-type scale, the physical symptoms of anger are investigated in 14 items with the question "How often do the following symptoms occur in you when you get angry?". In the second dimension, a total of 42 items describing the factors that cause anger are given and the intensity of anger aroused by these statements is asked. In the third dimension, 30 items including thoughts related to anger are given and the question "How often do the following thoughts pass through your mind?"; and in the fourth dimension, 47 items asking "How often do you show the following behaviors in the face of a person who makes you angry?". In the fifth dimension, ways of coping with anger are investigated. In this dimension, there are 26 statements under the question "How often do you show the following behaviors when you are in a situation that makes you angry?". In this way, the scale collected in five dimensions was named "Multidimensional Anger Scale" (MDAS).Anger has significant relationships with emotions such as guilt, shame, depression, anxiety and symptoms such as somatization, negative self and hostility.
The results of the reliability analysis of the Multidimensional Anger Scale (MARS) indicate that the scale is quite reliable. Considering that the reliability coefficients of various anger scales in the publications range between .51 and .88, the reliability coefficients of the Multidimensional Anger Scale (MDAS), which range between .64 to .95, it can be stated that the reliability of the CRAS is at an acceptable level. In another study conducted with 619 individuals between the ages of 13 and 62 and investigating the predictive variables of suicide in young people by using the ESS developed in this study, the reliability coefficients ranged between .64 and .95.In the study (Batıgün 2002), the reliability coefficients of the scale were recalculated and the coefficients obtained were exactly the same (alpha= .64 to .95). Other evidence regarding the validity of the Multidimensional Anger Scale is discussed in several aspects. The first of these is the concurrent validity findings, in which the relationship of the scale with the related dimensions of scales that have already been shown to be valid was sought. As discussed in the introduction, the role of anger in depression, anxiety and somatization disorders has been the subject of many studies and it has been found that anger has a direct relationship with anxiety, depression, negative self-perception and somatization disorders (Rosenbaum 1993). It has also been shown that there is a significant relationship between hostility and anger (Berkowitz 1990). For these reasons, in order to obtain information about the criterion-related validity and construct validity of the BPSI on the one hand and the construct validity on the other, the Brief Symptom Inventory, which includes these dimensions and whose standardization information was previously collected in our country, was used.
* Balkaya F, Şahin NH. Multidimensional Anger Scale. Turkish Journal of Psychiatry 2003; 14:192-202.
Subscales:
1. Physical symptoms of anger:
2. Intensity of anger aroused by the factors that cause anger:
3. Anger-related thoughts:
4. Behaviors in interpersonal relationships in case of anger:
5 Ways of coping with anger:
TOTAL 158 ITEMS
1) Symptoms of Anger(14 items)
2) Situations that cause anger (41 items)
Not Taken Seriously (9th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 19th, 20th, 20th, 23rd, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th, 40th and 41st / 20 items in total)
Injustice (4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 21st, 22nd, 24th, 25th, 26th and 34th, 16 items in total)
Being criticized (1., 2., 3. 7. and 10. 5 items in total)
3) Thoughts Associated with Anger(30 items)
Thoughts about Anger (6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 21, 28 total 9 items)
Anger Thoughts Towards Others (7, 14, 15, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 30 total. 9 items)
Anger Thoughts Towards Self (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 23, 29 total 7 items)
Anger Thoughts Towards the World (9, 16, 17, 18, 25 total 5 items)
4) Anger-Related Behaviors (26 items)
Aggressive Behaviors (2, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 12, 13, 15, 16, 23, 24, 26 total 12 items)
Calm Behavior (1, 8, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25 total 10 items)
Anxious Behaviors (3, 4, 5, 6 total 4 items)
5) Interpersonal Anger(47 items)
Revenge Reactions (1st, 3rd, 5th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 22nd, 24th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 35th, 38th, 39th, 40th, 41st and 47th, 24 items in total)
Passive-Aggressive Reactions (2., 4., 10., 20., 21., 25., 33., 34., 36. and 37. total 10 items)
Introverted Reactions (13th, 14th, 19th, 23rd, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 42nd and 46th items in total 10 items)
Reckless Reactions (43rd, 44th and 45th, total 3 items)