Development of the Reaction Inventory to Measure Anger

Abstract

The Reaction Inventory was developed to measure anger, and the 76 items in the inventory were administered to 275 Ss. The estimate of the internal consistency coefficient was .95. The coefficient of concurrent validity with the Buss-Durkee Inventory for one subsample of 45 Ss was .52 and for another subsample of 138 Ss was .57. Factor analysis of the Reaction Inventory yielded 10 factors.