ERIC Number: EJ1084063
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Jan
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0044-118X
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Developing a Valid Version of an Inventory to Measure Anger in Mexican Adolescents of Middle School Level: The ML-STAXI-MS
Alcázar-Olán, Raúl J.; Deffenbacher, Jerry L.; Escamilla-Tecalco, Héctor
Youth & Society, v48 n1 p126-143 Jan 2016
The goals were to develop a valid version of the Multicultural Latin American Inventory of Anger Expression and Hostility (ML-STAXI) for middle school Mexican youth (ML-STAXI-MS) and to test a new Questionnaire about Anger Expression with Physical Aggression (QAEPA). Five hundred and four adolescents (258 males, 246 females); (M[subscript age] = 13.75, SD = 1.01) from a public school in Mexico City completed both instruments. Exploratory factor analysis yielded seven factors for the ML-STAXI-MS. Four were identical (desire to express anger physically and verbally, angry feelings, temperament, and reaction) to those obtained in other Mexican samples, and three factors (anger-out and anger control-in and -out) were similar to other studies with the ML-STAXI. No anger-in factor was found. Alpha reliabilities ranged from 0.75 to 0.91. The QAEPA yielded a 4-item factor (a = 0.72) of physical aggressive anger expression (e.g., hitting).
Descriptors: Adolescents, Middle School Students, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Aggression, Psychological Patterns, Factor Analysis, Reliability, Questionnaires, Personality Traits, Self Control, Student Attitudes, Mexicans, Correlation, Likert Scales
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Mexico
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