STATE ANGER AND TRAIT ANGER - PRELIMINARY VALIDATION OF THE CZECH VERSION OF SPIELBERGER STATE-TRAIT ANGER EXPRESSION INVENTORY (STAXI) DEVELOPED BY SPIELBERGER (1988)

The above mentioned inventory enables us also to assess Anger-in, Ange r-out, and Anger-control. We concentrated on at our ''first tryout'' o nly on the first two scales i. e. State-Anger and Trait-Anger, where T rait-Anger consists of two subscales: Angry Temperament and Angry reac tion. A self report procedure can be seen as the most valid method to measure these aspects becouse emotion are private events which cannot be observed more accurately than by oneself. The separation was perfor med by an exploratory factor analysis. Three factor solution (state, t emperament, reaction) accounted for 45% of response variance. Internal consistency is satisfactory. Elaboration of the three remaining scale s have been under investigation yet. This concerns criterion validity and concurrent validity as well.