Table 2.

Characteristics of anger subscales.

Anger subscales	No of Items	Scale score mean (SD)	Scale score range	Scale item mean (SD)*
Anger-state	15	18.0 (7.5)	15-60	1.20 (0.50)
Anger-trait	10	15.8 (4.9)	10-36	1.58 (0.49)
Anger expression
Anger-out	8	13.9 (3.5)	8-27	1.73 (0.44)
Anger-in	8	15.8 (4.3)	8-28	1.98 (0.54)
Anger-control (out)	8	24.1 (5.3)	14-32	3.01 (0.66)
Anger-control (in)	8	23.1 (5.2)	10-32	2.89 (0.65)

SD: standard deviation

^*Scale items ranged between 1 and 4 on a likert scale from 1= Almost never, to 4= Almost always