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Cognitive-behavioral formulations have proposed that anger disorders are mediated by irrational beliefs. The modification of irrational beliefs has been followed by reduction in anger-proneness. Determination of a causal relationship, however, requires at least a correlation between irrational beliefs and proneness to anger arousal. Subjects completed a validated measure of self-reported anger-proneness and of irrational beliefs. Multiple regression analyses showed significant positive relationships between all dimensions of anger proneness and several irrational beliefs. Implications for the cognitive-behavior modification of anger are discussed.
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Lohr, J.M., Hamberger, L.K. & Bonge, D. The relationship of factorially validated measures of anger-proneness and irrational beliefs. Motiv Emot 12, 171–183 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00992172
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