The anger management scale: Development and preliminary psychometric properties

Violence and Victims

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 383-402

  Stith, Sandra M ^a   Hamby, Sherry L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY;

EID: 0036696334     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/vivi.17.4.383.33683     Document Type: Article

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