Coping With Racism: Moderators of the Discrimination-Adjustment Link Among Mexican-Origin Adolescents

What strategies help ethnic minority adolescents to cope with racism? The present study addressed this question by testing the role of ethnic identity, social support, and anger expression and suppression as moderators of the discrimination-adjustment link among 269 Mexican-origin adolescents (Mage = 14.1 years), 12-17 years old from the Midwestern U.S. Results from multilevel moderation analyses indicated that ethnic identity, social support, and anger suppression, respectively, significantly attenuated the relations between discrimination and adjustment problems, whereas outward anger expression exacerbated these relations. Moderation effects differed according to the level of analysis. By identifying effective coping strategies in the discrimination-adjustment link at specific levels of analysis, the present findings can guide future intervention efforts for Latino youth

Love, Anger, and Racial Injustice

Luminaries like Martin Luther King, Jr. urge that Black Americans love even those who hate them. This can look like a rejection of anger at racial injustice. We see this rejection, too, in the growing trend of characterizing social justice movements as radical hate groups, and people who get angry at injustice as bitter and unloving. Philosophers like Martha Nussbaum argue that anger is backward-looking, status focused, and retributive. Citing the life of the Prodigal Son, the victims of the Charleston Church shooting, Gandhi, and King, she claims that we should choose love instead of anger – not only in our intimate relationships but also in the political realm. Buddhist monk and scholar, Śāntideva, argued that anger is an obstacle to love. Anger leads to suffering. Love frees us from suffering. All this makes an initially compelling case against anger at racial injustice. In addition, although philosophers Jeffrie Murphy and Antti Kauppinen argue that anger communicates self-respect and valuing, respectively––they make no connection between agape love and anger. In this essay I’ll show that the love King and others have in mind––agape love––is not only compatible with anger at hateful racists and complicit others, but finds valuable expression in such anger

Gaya Kelekatan Dan Kemarahan

This study was purposed to differencences angry (experience angry and expression anger) on attachment style (secure, with drawl, and anxious). The hypothesis was that there were differences angry scores (experience angry and expression angry) on attachment styles (secure withdrawal, and anxious). Subject with secure attachment was angry score higher than subject with withdrawal and anxious attachment style. There was 100 subjects participation in this study. There were two scales, which are attachment style scale and State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXY). The result is that there is differences experience and expression anger between three attachment styles. Subject with secure attachment style have experiences angry (trait anger & state anger) and expressions anger (anger-in, anger-out) lower than subjects with the others; and mean score anger control subject\u27s is higher than the others. Keywords: attachment style, angr

The role of co-occurring emotions and personality traits in anger expression

The main aim of the current study was to examine the role of co-occurring emotions and their interactive effects with the Big Five personality traits in anger expression. Everyday anger expression ("anger-in" and "anger-out" behavior) was studied with the experience-sampling method in a group of 110 participants for 14 consecutive days on 7 random occasions per day. Our results showed that the simultaneously co-occurring emotions that buffer against anger expression are sadness, surprise, disgust, disappointment, and irritation for anger-in behavior, and fear, sadness and disappointment for anger-out reactions. While previous studies have shown that differentiating one's current affect into discrete emotion categories buffers against anger expression (Pond et al., 2012), our study further demonstrated the existence of specific interactive effects between the experience of momentary emotions and personality traits that lead to higher levels of either suppression or expression of anger behavior (or both). For example, the interaction between the trait Openness and co-occurring surprise, in predicting anger-in behavior, indicates that less open people hold their anger back more, and more open people use less anger-in behavior. Co-occurring disgust increases anger-out reactions in people low in Conscientiousness, but decreases anger-out reactions in people high in Conscientiousness. People high in Neuroticism are less likely to engage in anger-in behavior when experiencing disgust, surprise, or irritation alongside anger, but show more anger out in the case of co-occurring contempt. The results of the current study help to further clarify the interactions between the basic personality traits and the experience of momentary co-occurring emotions in determining anger behavior

The measurement of the emotion of anger

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityThis thesis has had as its purpose the study of the measurement of the emotion of anger. Its method is that of an examination, evaluation and summarization of all scientific studies in the experimental psychology of anger. It sources will be the recognized journals of psychology plus the writer's own research. It assumers as a postulate for the thesis that measurement is the most exact description of physical phenomena by the method of comparison to a fixed and known quantity. It defines emotion as a configuration of feeling tones arising out of the disturbed functioning of the viscera and glands, plus an overt set of behaviour patterns which show a stirred up state of the organism plus a lack of ability on the part of the individual to handle the situation in accordance with his known intellectual capabilities. Anger is best described as the emotion arising out of the thwarting of the personality, desires, and purposes. Physiologically, anger results from the functioning of the thoracic-lumbar section of the autonomic nervous system; it is correlated in its functioning with the emotion of fear, and is antagonism functionally, with the emotions of sex and hunger. Psychologically, anger is described as an emotion that arises only when there is a fair margin of safety on the part of the individual in gaining his purpose by such overt behaviors. Introspectively, anger is unpleasant. Anger may express itself subjectively, and by fantasy of repression and in so doing, it has its psychoanlytical phases. Genetically, anger arises in early infancy, and with experience changes, and is modified into socialized behaviour. Anger has its abnormal psychology in the individual who cannot get angry, in the irritable person, in the person who has temper tantrums, in the individual who holds a grudge for a long time, and finally in the paranoic who believes everyone is persecuting him. On the theoretical side, anger may arouse from the disturbed viscera or muscies or from the passage of stimuli through the thalamus. Anger may possibly be differentiated from the other emotions by the sensations arising from its expression

Pragmatic Analysis Of Anger Expressions On “An Enemy Of The People” Manuscript By Henrik Ibsen

This research belongs to decsriptive qualitative research. The research purposes are to describe the causes of anger expression that appear and to explain the differences of anger expression in stress, intonation, dirty word, irony and direct expression between a man and a woman, old woman and young woman, and politicians and scientists on “An Enemy of the People” manuscript by Hendrik Ibsen. The data of this research is the expression of anger in the forms of words, sentences and information related to anger expression on “An Enemy of the People” manuscript by Henrik Ibsen. The data sources of this research are “An Enemy of the People” manuscript by Henrik Ibsen. The researcher used observation and documentation as the method of collecting data. The results of the research show that: First, There are eight causes of anger expression that appear in “An Enemy of the People” manuscript. There are: (1) 1 datum or 1,04% belongs to being treated unfairly and feeling powerless to change it condition; (2) 1 datum or 1,04% belongs to losing out when money is at stake; (3) 1 datum or 1,04% belongs to being interrupted when pursuing a goal; (4) 5 data or 5,21% belongs to being verbally or physically assaulted; (5) 10 data or 10,42% belongs to facing a threat to the selves or the loved ones; (6) 16 data or 16,67% belongs to suffering a blow to the participant or the place within a social group ; (7) 30 data or 31,25% belongs to someone going against a principle that the people consider important; and (8) 32 data or 33,33% belongs to feeling disappointed by someone else or in the selves. Second, a man and a woman, old woman and young woman, and politicians and scientists expresses the anger on “An Enemy of the People” manuscript, used: (1) stress; (2) intonation; (3) dirty word; (4) irony; and (5) direct expression. a) A man expresses his anger using stress, high intonation, dirty word, irony and direct expression more than a woman. b) An old woman expresses her anger using stress, high intonation, dirty word, irony and direct expression more than an old woman. c) Politicians expresses his anger stress, high intonation, dirty word, irony and direct expression more than politicians

Time-Efficient Hybrid Approach for Facial Expression Recognition

Facial expression recognition is an emerging research area for improving human and computer interaction. This research plays a significant role in the field of social communication, commercial enterprise, law enforcement, and other computer interactions. In this paper, we propose a time-efficient hybrid design for facial expression recognition, combining image pre-processing steps and different Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) structures providing better accuracy and greatly improved training time. We are predicting seven basic emotions of human faces: sadness, happiness, disgust, anger, fear, surprise and neutral. The model performs well regarding challenging facial expression recognition where the emotion expressed could be one of several due to their quite similar facial characteristics such as anger, disgust, and sadness. The experiment to test the model was conducted across multiple databases and different facial orientations, and to the best of our knowledge, the model provided an accuracy of about 89.58% for KDEF dataset, 100% accuracy for JAFFE dataset and 71.975% accuracy for combined (KDEF + JAFFE + SFEW) dataset across these different scenarios. Performance evaluation was done by cross-validation techniques to avoid bias towards a specific set of images from a database

Causal analysis of multidimensional school anger among elementary and junior high school children

The purpose of this study was to examine causal relationships between three aspects of children\u27s anger (emotion, cognition, and behavioral expression), using two-wave panel design. Responses of 543 students (198 from elementary schools and 345 from junior high schools) at two time points to the Japanese version of the Multidimensional School Anger Inventory were analyzed. Results of structural equation modeling indicated differences in causal relationships between anger aspects, based on gender and age level. In elementary schoolboys, prior "positiv ecoping" predicted later decrease of "anger experience." In elementary schoolgirls, prior "destructive expression" predicted later increase of "anger experience", and prior "anger experience" predicted later decrease of "positivecoping." There was also a simultaneous negative influence of "hostility" on "positivecoping." In junior high schoolboys, prior "destructive expression" predicted later "anger experience" and "hostility." Moreover, "positive coping" simultaneously influenced "destructive expression." In junior high schoolgirls, there was a cross-lagged negative reciprocal causal relationship between "hostility" and "positive coping" as well as a simultaneous causal relationship from "hostility" to "anger experience." Although these differences based on children\u27s gender and age level, suggested in this study, need to be further addressed in future studies, they could provide useful information for designing prevention and intervention plans

Pragmatic Analysis Of Anger Expressions On “An Enemy Of The People” Manuscript By Henrik Ibsen

This research belongs to decsriptive qualitative research. The research purposes are to describe the causes of anger expression that appear and to explain the differences of anger expression in stress, intonation, dirty word, irony and direct expression between a man and a woman, old woman and young woman, and politicians and scientists on “An Enemy of the People” manuscript by Hendrik Ibsen. The data of this research is the expression of anger in the forms of words, sentences and information related to anger expression on “An Enemy of the People” manuscript by Henrik Ibsen. The data sources of this research are “An Enemy of the People” manuscript by Henrik Ibsen. The researcher used observation and documentation as the method of collecting data. The results of the research show that: First, There are eight causes of anger expression that appear in “An Enemy of the People” manuscript. There are: (1) 1 datum or 1,04% belongs to being treated unfairly and feeling powerless to change it condition; (2) 1 datum or 1,04% belongs to losing out when money is at stake; (3) 1 datum or 1,04% belongs to being interrupted when pursuing a goal; (4) 5 data or 5,21% belongs to being verbally or physically assaulted; (5) 10 data or 10,42% belongs to facing a threat to the selves or the loved ones; (6) 16 data or 16,67% belongs to suffering a blow to the participant or the place within a social group ; (7) 30 data or 31,25% belongs to someone going against a principle that the people consider important; and (8) 32 data or 33,33% belongs to feeling disappointed by someone else or in the selves. Second, a man and a woman, old woman and young woman, and politicians and scientists expresses the anger on “An Enemy of the People” manuscript, used: (1) stress; (2) intonation; (3) dirty word; (4) irony; and (5) direct expression. a) A man expresses his anger using stress, high intonation, dirty word, irony and direct expression more than a woman. b) An old woman expresses her anger using stress, high intonation, dirty word, irony and direct expression more than an old woman. c) Politicians expresses his anger stress, high intonation, dirty word, irony and direct expression more than politicians

Pregnant women with bronchial asthma benefit from progressive muscle relaxation: A randomized, prospective, controlled trial

Background: Asthma is a serious medical problem in pregnancy and is often associated with stress, anger and poor quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) on change in blood pressure, lung parameters, heart rate, anger and health-related quality of life in pregnant women with bronchial asthma. Methods: We treated a sample of 64 pregnant women with bronchial asthma from the local population in an 8-week randomized, prospective, controlled trial. Thirty-two were selected for PMR, and 32 received a placebo intervention. The systolic blood pressure, forced expiratory volume in the first second, peak expiratory flow and heart rate were tested, and the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory and Health Survey (SF-36) were employed. Results: According to the intend-to-treat principle, a significant reduction in systolic blood pressure and a significant increase in both forced expiratory volume in the first second and peak expiratory flow were observed after PMR. The heart rate showed a significant increase in the coefficient of variation, root mean square of successive differences and high frequency ranges, in addition to a significant reduction in low and middle frequency ranges. A significant reduction on three of five State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory scales, and a significant increase on seven of eight SF-36 scales were observed. Conclusions: PMR appears to be an effective method to improve blood pressure, lung parameters and heart rate, and to decrease anger levels, thus enhancing health-related quality of life in pregnant women with bronchial asthma. Copyright (c) 2006 S. Karger AG, Basel