Citation

Khairani AZ, Ahmad NS, Khairani MZ. J. Appl. Meas. 2017; 18(4): 449-458.

Affiliation

Ahmad Zamri Khairani, School of Educational Studies, 11800 Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, Ahmadzamri@usm.my.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, JAM Press)

DOI

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PMID

29252212

Abstract

Adolescences is an important transitional phase in human development where they experience physiological as well as psychological changes. Nevertheless, these changes are often understood by teachers, parents, and even the adolescents themselves. Thus, conflicts exist and adolescents are affected from the conflict physically and emotionally. An important state of emotions that result from this conflict is anger. This article describes the development and validation of the 34-item Adolescent Anger Inventory (AAI) to measure types of anger among Malaysian adolescents. A sample of 2,834 adolescents in secondary school who provide responses that were analyzed using Rasch model measurement framework. The 4 response category worked satisfactorily for the scale developed. A total of 11 items did not fit to the model's expectations, and thus dropped from the final scale. The scale also demonstrated satisfactory reliability and separation evidence. Also, items in the AAI depicted no evidence of DIF between 14- and 16-year-old adolescents. Nevertheless, the AAI did not have sufficient items to target adolescents with a high level of physical aggressive anger.

Language: en