THE CLINICAL ANGER SCALE - PRELIMINARY RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY

This article reports preliminary evidence for the development and vali dation of the Clinical Anger Scale (GAS), an objective self-report ins trument designed to measure the syndrome of clinical anger. Factor ana lysis of the CAS confirmed a unidimensional item structure; reliabilit y analyses also demonstrated adequate internal consistency and test-re test stability for the GAS; other results indicated that the CAS was u nrelated to social desirability influences. Additional findings indica ted that clinical anger was associated positively with several anger-r elated concepts (e.g., trait anger, state anger, anger-in, anger-out, anger-control) and that the CAS was related in predictable ways to peo ple's psychopathological symptoms, personality traits, and early famil y environments. Implications for future research and therapeutic asses sment with the Clinical Anger Scale are discussed.