Psychometric measurement of anger and hostility expression

Abstract

We present a view of the conceptual and theoretical framework of the expression and suppression of anger. The goal of this study was to report the development of the Multicultural Anger Expression and Hostility Inventory. Responses to the items were factored in separate principal component factor analysis with promax rotations to determine the level of factor structure. The analyses substantially verified the factor structure of previous studies in LatinAmerican samples. The instrument presents with empirical evidence that demonstrates a high degree of construct validity and internal consistency as shown by its factorial structure and alpha correlations.