The present study investigated the Anger IAT as a
valid measure of anger. In order to answer this question
the relationship between the Anger IAT and traditional
measures of anger, anxiety, and self esteem were examined
for convergent and divergent validity. It was hypothesized
that the Anger IAT measure would be moderately to highly
correlated with the State Trait Anger Expression Inventory-
2 (STAXI-2), correlated less with the State-Trait Anxiety
Inventory (STAI), and correlated least with the Rosenberg
Self Esteem Scale (RSES). Additionally, to demonstrate that
the Anger IAT measure reduces a person??s ability to fake
good, social desirability is hypothesized to have a
moderating effect between the Anger IAT and the STAXI-2. A total of 60 subjects participated in this
investigation, 42 of which were female and 18 were males.
Furthermore, there were 20 Caucasian, 34 Hispanic, and 6
African American participants.
It was found that the Anger IAT was correlated with
several scales of the STAXI-2. The Anger IAT correlated
less with the STAI and least with the RSES. Furthermore,
it was found that the Anger IAT measure reduced the
participant??s ability to fake good.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/2547 |
| Date | 01 November 2005 |
| Creators | Cuellar, Rafael |
| Contributors | Conoley, Collie |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Dissertation, text |
| Format | 2653732 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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