EXPRESSION OF ANGER BY SAMOAN ADULTS

A modified Version of Spielberger's 1988 Anger Expression Inventory in cluding four Samoan culture-specific anger terms was administered to 5 93 adult American and Western Samoans, 25 to 55 years, to assess intra sample age, sex, and location differences and to examine its cross-cul tural utility by an exploratory factor analysis. American Samoans men' s and women's scores showed greater difficulty controlling anger than Western Samoan men and women, American Samoan males scored higher on A nger-Out and Samoan anger expression than Western Samoan men, and West ern Samoan women scored higher on Anger-Out and higher on Samoan anger expression than Western Samoan men. Factor analysis showed that Spiel berger's original factor structure was replicated in all subpopulation s except American Samoan women. Control of anger, a Samoan cultural co re value, appears to be more difficult in modern American Samoans of b oth sexes compared with the more traditional Western Samoans. Among Am erican Samoan women, we speculate that role expansion may be responsib le for their heterogeneous factor structure of anger expression.