Musante L, MacDougall J M, Dembroski T M, Costa P T
University of Tampa.
Health Psychol. 1989;8(3):343-54. doi: 10.1037//0278-6133.8.3.343.
Recent reviews have linked Potential for Hostility derived from the Structured Interview (SI) to coronary artery disease, independent of the global Type A pattern. The present study examined the construct validity of Potential for Hostility ratings by correlating Potential for Hostility with 21 scales from four widely used anger/hostility measures: 7 scales from the Anger Self-Report, 8 scales from the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, the total score from the Novaco Anger Inventory, and 5 scales from the Multidimensional Anger Inventory. The pattern of correlations revealed that Potential for Hostility was significantly related to scales reflecting awareness and arousal of anger, particularly the verbal expression of anger. To identify underlying anger dimensions, the 21 scales were factor-analyzed. Examination of two and three rotated principal components confirmed previous solutions. The first component, representing anger-arousing and -eliciting situations and anger awareness, was labeled Experience of Anger. The second component, consisting of scales dealing with either physical assault or verbal expression of anger, was labeled Expression of Anger. When a third factor was retained, it contained scales of suspicion, mistrust-suspicion, and guilt: It was therefore labeled Suspicion-Guilt. Potential for Hostility was correlated only with the Expression of Anger factor in the two-factor solution; in the three-factor solution, Potential for Hostility was correlated equally with the Experience of Anger and Expression of Anger factors but was not correlated with the Suspicion-Guilt factor. The implications of these results for the assessment of hostility are discussed.
近期的综述表明，源自结构化访谈（SI）的敌意倾向与冠状动脉疾病有关，且独立于整体A型行为模式。本研究通过将敌意倾向与四种广泛使用的愤怒/敌意测量工具中的21个量表进行关联，检验了敌意倾向评分的结构效度：这四种工具分别是：愤怒自评量表中的7个量表、巴斯-杜克敌意量表中的8个量表、诺瓦科愤怒量表的总分以及多维愤怒量表中的5个量表。相关模式显示，敌意倾向与反映愤怒意识和唤醒程度的量表显著相关，尤其是愤怒的言语表达。为了确定潜在的愤怒维度，对这21个量表进行了因子分析。对两个和三个旋转主成分的检验证实了先前的结果。第一个成分代表引发愤怒的情境和愤怒意识，被标记为愤怒体验。第二个成分由涉及身体攻击或愤怒言语表达的量表组成，被标记为愤怒表达。当保留第三个因素时，它包含怀疑、不信任-怀疑和内疚的量表：因此被标记为怀疑-内疚。在两因素解决方案中，敌意倾向仅与愤怒表达因子相关；在三因素解决方案中，敌意倾向与愤怒体验因子和愤怒表达因子的相关性相同，但与怀疑-内疚因子无关。本文讨论了这些结果对敌意评估的意义。
