ScholarOne - The Anger Parameters Scale: Theoretical constructs,
factorial validity, and composite reliability
Abstract
The Anger Parameters Scale (APS) is a 30-item self-report questionnaire
designed to assess anger much like a signal with spatio-temporal
properties. These properties correspond to five APS subscales:
frequency, duration, intensity, latency, and threshold. In this
psychometric study, 311 young adult students completed the APS.
Confirmatory factor analysis supported the theoretically-postulated
five-factor structure and a second-order factor underpinning the five
dimensions. Composite reliability estimates exceeded the conventional
.70 cutoff for reliability, thus providing evidence of internal
consistency in the factor structure of the APS. In deconstructing anger,
the instrument allows signal properties of an individual’s anger to be
measured separately and also plotted as a profile for configural
analysis. This allows particular aspects of anger dysfunction to be
identified. in emerging adults. The specificity thus obtained can help
corroborate clinical diagnoses (e.g., Intermittent Explosive Disorder)
that are distinctive in terms of intensity, duration, frequency, and
other parameters.