Anger Expression: Parental and Cognitive Factors

Abstract

The associations of parental moral disengagement, guilt, prosocial behavior, and anger, with their children's maladaptive anger was examined. 98 college undergraduate students and their parents participated. Both students and parents completed the Anger Response Inventory, the Mechanism of Moral Disengagement Scale, the Texas Social Behavior Inventory, the Fear of Punishment Scale, and the Need for Reparation Scale. A multiple regression analysis was performed to assess the students' variables which predicted maladaptive anger. Only moral disengagement was a predictor of the students' maladaptive anger. Subsequent multiple regression analyses were used to examine whether parental variables predict students' anger. Fathers' maladaptive anger, and prosocial skills were significantly related to students' maladaptive anger. Maternal variables produced an increase in the multiple R similar to the fathers', but none of the individual measures were significantly associated with the students' maladaptive anger.

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“…Anger is regularly considered a negative emotion due to its possible harmful consequences, e.g., aggression (Lazarus, 1991). But it can also be associated with prosocial actions regulated through moral codes that address situations considered socially unfair (Cox, Lopez, & Schneider, 2003;Haidt, 2003;Harmon-Jones, Sige1man, Bohlig, & Harmon-Jones, 2003;Moll, de OliveiraSouza, Moll, Ignacio, Bramati, Caparelli-Daquer, & Eslinger, 2005), so that it is viable to consider anger not only a basic but also a social and moral emotion that requires a theory of mind to infer others' mental, emotional, and physical states (Haidt, 2003).…”