Citation

Alcázar-Olán RJ, Deffenbacher JL, Escamilla-Tecalco H. Youth Soc. 2016; 48(1): 126-143.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0044118X13483775

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The goals were to develop a valid version of the Multicultural Latin American Inventory of Anger Expression and Hostility (ML-STAXI) for middle school Mexican youth (ML-STAXI-MS) and to test a new Questionnaire about Anger Expression with Physical Aggression (QAEPA). Five hundred and four adolescents (258 males, 246 females); (Mage = 13.75, SD = 1.01) from a public school in Mexico City completed both instruments. Exploratory factor analysis yielded seven factors for the ML-STAXI-MS. Four were identical (desire to express anger physically and verbally, angry feelings, temperament, and reaction) to those obtained in other Mexican samples, and three factors (anger-out and anger control-in and -out) were similar to other studies with the ML-STAXI. No anger-in factor was found. Alpha reliabilities ranged from.75 to.91. The QAEPA yielded a 4-item factor (α =.72) of physical aggressive anger expression (e.g., hitting).

Language: en