Test — retest reliability of the State — Trait Personality Inventory and
the Anger Expression Scale
Not exact matches
We assessed mood and emotion regulation with the following measures: Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), 22 the Differential Emotions
Scale (DES), 23 the Aggression scale, 24 and the State - Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI - 2).25 The PANAS yields 2 factors: positive affect and negative affect, with good reliability in our sample (positive affect α = 0.81 and 0.89; negative affect α = 0.84 and 0
Scale (DES), 23 the Aggression
scale, 24 and the State - Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI - 2).25 The PANAS yields 2 factors: positive affect and negative affect, with good reliability in our sample (positive affect α = 0.81 and 0.89; negative affect α = 0.84 and 0
scale, 24 and the State - Trait
Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI - 2).25 The PANAS yields 2 factors: positive affect and negative affect, with good reliability in our sample (positive affect α = 0.81 and 0.89; negative affect α = 0.84 and 0.87).
Infantile aggression was assessed at 18 months of age using the Cardiff Infant Contentiousness
Scale (CICS)(Hay, Perra et al., 2010), which is a measure of the use of physical force and
expressions of
anger toward family members and peers during infancy comprising 4 items.
The following research methods were applied: (1) Rational / Experiential Multimodal Inventory — REI - m (Epstein, 2011), (2) State - Trait
Anger Expression Inventory — STAXI - 2 (Spielberger, 1999), and (3) Self - reflection and Insight
Scale (Grant et al., 2002).
Measures evaluated between post-test and 3 month follow - up included the State - Trait
Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI), Conflict Tactics
Scale - Form R (CTS), and the Bloom's Family Conflict subscale.
Measures utilized include the Childhood Maltreatment Interview Schedule, the Sexual Assault and Additional Interpersonal Violence Schedule, the Clinician - Administered PTSD
Scale (CAPS), the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM — IV (SCID - I and SCID - II), the Modified Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom
Scale (MPSS - SR), the General Expectancy for Negative Mood Regulation
Scale (NMR), the
Anger Expression subscale (Ax / Ex) from the State — Trait
Anger Expression Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the State subscale of the State — Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI — S), the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP), the Social Adjustment
Scale — Self Report (SAS - SR), and the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI).
Participants completed the Trait
Anger Scale at intake, the State - Trait
Anger Expression Inventory at pre - and post-test, the Daily
Anger Exposure Record and Beck Depression Inventory - Second Edition (BDI - II) throughout the intervention, and the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) at post-test only.
Five 7 - point rating
scales were used: supportive presence (i.e.,
expression of positive regard and emotional support to the child), hostility (i.e.,
expression of
anger, discounting, rejecting or blaming the child), intrusiveness (i.e., interfering with the child's needs, interests and behaviors), clarity of instruction (i.e., structuring, timely hints and adequate pace of instruction), and confidence (i.e.,
expression of confidence in the child's ability to fulfill the task).