Influence of Depression on State and Trait Anger in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Raab, Phillip A.; Mackintosh, Margaret‐Anne; Grös, Daniel F.; Morland, Leslie A.

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“…For example, Nakano and Kitamura (2001) reported high positive correlations between psychological symptoms and anger. Similar studies revealed a statistically positive and significant correlation between anger and various psychological symptoms, especially depression (Turkcapar et al, 2004;Taft et al, 2007;Hisli-Sahin et al, 2011;Oz et al, 2011;Castelli et al, 2013;Leonhardt et al, 2018), posttraumatic stress disorder (Orth et al, 2008;Raab et al, 2013), eating disorder (Zaitsoff et al, 2002), rumination (Christ et al, 2020), and violence (Novaco and Chemtob, 2015).…”

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confidence: 79%

Anger and psychological symptoms relationship: mediator role of maladaptive schemas

Özmen

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Trait anger is the strong predictor of various psychological symptoms like anxiety, depression, and hostility. Explaining how and why this relationship occurs is crucial to come up with more effective prevention and intervention strategies in the field. To this end, the current study aimed to reveal the mediating effect of early maladaptive schemas, which is the basic concept of schema therapy, on the relations of trait anger and psychological symptoms. Data was collected from 301 university students by using the measurement tools of Brief Symptom Inventory, Trait Anger Scale and Young Schema Scale. Findings revealed that trait anger positively predicted psychological symptoms. Secondly, a set of predictive models were prepared to detect the mediating effect of early maladaptive schemas. According to the analysis in the last stage, early maladaptive schemas fully mediated the relationship between trait anger and psychological symptoms.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 79%

Anger and psychological symptoms relationship: mediator role of maladaptive schemas

Özmen

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…Sayer et al (2010) did not assess depression, but 84% of OEF/OIF veterans with possible PTSD had "more problems controlling anger" since deployment, and 61% had "thoughts or concerns about hurting someone"-each rated more than double that for those negative on the PTSD screen. Raab, Mackintosh, Gros, and Morland (2013) found that MDD and dysphoria partially mediated the relationship between PTSD and anger, but they did not report on levels of anger when PTSD and MDD were conjoined.…”

Section: Anger's Relevance For Co-occurring Ptsd and Mddmentioning

confidence: 90%

Anger intensification with combat-related PTSD and depression comorbidity.

González

Novaco

Reger

et al. 2016

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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Anger is becoming more widely recognized for its involvement in the psychological adjustment problems of current war veterans. Recent research with combat veterans has found anger to be related to psychological distress, psychosocial functioning, and harm risk variables. Using behavioral health data for 2,077 treatment-seeking soldiers who had been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, this study examined whether anger disposition was intensified for those who met screen-threshold criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD). Anger was assessed with a 7-item screening measure previously validated with the study population. The study tested the hypothesis that anger would be highest when "PTSD & MDD" were conjoined, compared with "PTSD only," "MDD only," and "no PTSD, no MDD." PTSD and depression were assessed with well-established screening instruments. A self-rated "wanting to harm others" variable was also incorporated. Age, gender, race, military component, military grade, and military unit social support served as covariates. Hierarchical multiple regression was used to test the hypothesis, which was confirmed. Anger was intensified in the PTSD & MDD condition, in which it was significantly higher than in the other 3 conditions. Convergent support was obtained for "wanting to harm others" as an exploratory index. Given the high prevalence and co-occurrence of PTSD and MDD among veterans, the results have research and clinical practice relevance for systematic inclusion of anger assessment postdeployment from risk-assessment and screening standpoints.

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“…Not for further distribution. (Linkh & Sonnek, 2003); police officers (Gerzina & Drummond, 2000;Leonard & Alison, 1999); veterans (Clark, 1994) Revised version of STAXI-SAS (Spielberger, 1988) Revised version of STAXI-TAS (Spielberger, 1988) Revised version of STAXI-AX (Spielberger, 1988) Managerial, technical, and clerical personnel (Spielberger, 1999); military personnel (Bailie et al, 2015;Forbes et al, 2014;Raab et al, 2013;Shea et al, 2013); retail, wholesale, education, and health employment (Booth et al, 2017)…”

Section: Assessment Of Anger In the Workplacementioning

confidence: 99%

Anger as an occupational health challenge for employees in high-risk occupations.

Britt¹,

Wilson²,

Elbogen³

et al. 2021

Anger at Work: Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment in High-Risk Occupations.

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Although anger has frequently been examined among employees in high-risk occupations, the lack of a standardized measure of anger makes examining its prevalence difficult.• Anger is associated with a number of dysfunctional outcomes, but the expression of anger can be adaptive when addressing sources of injustice in the workplace.• Anger is a frequent consequence of exposure to traumatic events among employees in high-risk occupations and is intensified through hostile appraisals of threatening stimuli.• The experience of anger problems is associated with certain secondary problems for employees through negative effects of different areas of mental function.(continues)

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Influence of Depression on State and Trait Anger in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

Anger and psychological symptoms relationship: mediator role of maladaptive schemas

Anger and psychological symptoms relationship: mediator role of maladaptive schemas

Anger intensification with combat-related PTSD and depression comorbidity.

Anger as an occupational health challenge for employees in high-risk occupations.

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