Anger

Anger is a separate channel from anxiety or sadness, and people vary enormously in how accessible it is to them.

High scorers flare quickly and feel the heat of it. Low scorers rarely register anger at all.

A very low score cannot distinguish "does not generate anger" from "does not have access to anger". Self-report cannot tell those apart, and they are different situations.

Four public-domain statements, answered on a five-point scale. Items marked − are reverse keyed: agreeing with them counts against the trait, which is what stops agreeing with everything from producing a high score.

• +Get angry easily
• +Get irritated easily
• +Lose my temper
• -Am not easily annoyed

Four items is not many. A facet measured this way carries real uncertainty, which is why every score on this site is reported as a range rather than a single number.

This is one of the traits asked four times over — once for each level of closeness, from your inner circle out to strangers. Our prediction for it: reversed.

REVERSAL CONTROL, and the strongest available defence against response-style artifacts. Predicted to be expressed MORE toward close others -- you are short with family and civil with strangers -- consistent with Clifton (2014). A uniform response bias cannot produce opposite-signed slopes.

• +I lose my temper with ⟨group⟩.
• +I get irritated by ⟨group⟩.
• -I stay patient with ⟨group⟩.

⟨group⟩ is replaced by each of the four closeness anchors in turn.