Directions:
The items on this
scale describe situations that are related to anger arousal. For each of the items please rate the degree
to which the incident described would anger or provoke you by indicating the
appropriate degree of annoyance. Try to
imagine the incident actually happening to you, and then indicate the extent to
which it would make you angry.
In the
actual situations, the degree of anger that you would experience would depend
on other factors that are not specified in the items (such as what kind of
situation, how the act occurred, etc.). This scale is concerned with your general reactions, and so the details
of the particular situations have been omitted. Please do your best to rate your responses in this general
fashion. Please read each statement and place a check in the column next to the
statement that indicates the degree to which you would feel angry or annoyed in
each situation.
0
1
2
3
4
Situations
Very Little
Little
Moderate Amount
Much
Very Much
1. You unpack an appliance you have just bought,
plug it in, and discover that itdoesn’twork.
2. Being overcharged by a repairman who has you
over a barrel.
3. Being singled out for correction, when the
actions of others go unnoticed.
4. Getting your car stuck in the mud or snow.
5. You are talking to someone and they don’t
answer you.
6. Someone pretends to be something they are not.
7. While you are struggling to carry four cups of
coffee to your table at a cafeteria, someone bumps into you, spilling the
coffee.
8. You have hung up your clothes, but someone knocks
them to the floor and fails to pick them up.
9. You are hounded by a salesperson from the moment
that you walk into the store.
10. You have made arrangements to go somewhere with a
person who backs out at the last minute and leaves you hanging.
11. Being joked about or teased.
12. Your car is stalled at a traffic light, and the guy
behind you keeps blowing his horn.
13. You accidentally make the wrong kind of turn in a
parking lot.As you get out of your
car someone yells at you, “Where did you learn to drive?”
14. Someone makes a mistake and blames it on you.
15. You are trying to concentrate, but a person near
you is tapping their foot.
16. You lend someone an important book or tool, and
they fail to return it.
17. You have had a busy day, and the person you live
with starts to complain about how you forgot to do something that you agreed
to do.
18. You are trying to discuss something important with
your mate, partner or friend who isn’t giving you a chance to express your
feelings.
19. You are in a discussion with someone who persists
in arguing about a topic they knew very little about.
20. Someone sticks his or her nose into an argument
between you and someone else.
21. You need to get somewhere quickly, but the car in
front of you is going 25 mph in a 40 mph zone, and you can’t pass.
22. Stepping on a gob of chewing gum.
23. Being mocked by a small group of people as you pass
them.
24. In a hurry to get somewhere, you tear a good pair
of slacks on a sharp object.
25. You use your last 35 cents to make a phone call,
but you are disconnected before you finish dialing and the money is lost.
Scoring:
Take the number of checks in each column multiplied by the the value at top of column. Add this value for each of the columns to get the total score.
