The relationship between anger and selected variables among combat veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq were examined. The variables included posttraumatic stress disorder, combat experience, social support, and alcohol use. The participants were drawn from an email registry kept …
This dissertation examines problems with anger and violence among United States Military Service Members. In the first chapter, I review the literature on anger and aggression among veterans. Several studies have found associations between anger and posttraumatic stress disorder…
This study examined the effects of country and two levels of religious observance on anger experience and expression in American and Israeli Jews. The sample included Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Jews in the United States and in Israel. Four hundred and six participants were includ…
Abraham (1911/1968) and Freud (1917/1961) are perhaps the most notable theorists who first hypothesized that anger played a significant role in the subsequent manifestation of depression. Specifically, Freud (1917/1961) hypothesized that depression was anger turned inward; a rel…
In this work, we examine the nature of biblical anthropomorphism as it is depicted in divine anger. Most studies on divine anger focus narrowly on justifying God's anger without examining the social and cultural understandings presupposed by expressions of divine anger. This stu…
In the first book of the Bible, every patriarch and many of the matriarchs have significant encounters with anger. However, scholarship has largely ignored how Genesis treats this emotion, particularly how Genesis functions as Torah by providing ethical instruction about handlin…
The emotion of anger has become an increasingly important part of clinical assessment. Weak theoretical conceptualizations of anger and poor psychometric assessment instruments have lead DiGiuseppe and Tafrate (2007) to propose a new model of disturbed anger and to develop the A…
This dissertation examines the early Buddhist attitude toward anger (G kros̱a, OIA krodha) through the lens of an unpublished verse text, hereafter referred to as the *Kros̱a-gas̱a, from a newly discovered collection of Buddhist texts in the Gāndhārī language and Kharoṣṭhī script. …
States of Rage: On Cultural Emotion and Social Change
by Ma, Sheng-mei, Stryker, Susan, Allison, Terry L., Curry, Renee R., Curry, Renee R., Barnard, Ian, Brickman, Julie, Brigham, William, Davidowitz, Moshe, Friedman, Vanessa, Kahane, Claire, Keefer, Don, Lawson, D. S., Layden, Dianne R., O'Dair, Sharon, Shepard, Alan Clarke, DeGruyter
States of Rage permeate our culture and our daily lives. From the anti-Catholic protests of ACT-UP to the political posturing of Al Sharpton, from the LA Riots to anti-abortion gunmen murdering clinic personnel, the unleashing of rage, marginalized or institutional, has translat…
States of Rage permeate our culture and our daily lives. From the anti-Catholic protests of ACT-UP to the political posturing of Al Sharpton, from the LA Riots to anti-abortion gunmen murdering clinic personnel, the unleashing of rage, marginalized or institutional, has translat…
In the anthropological study of ethnic conflict, there has been an increasing call to look beyond the riot, to turn from a top-down, state-centered approach, to a nationalism of the street or neighborhood, to travel "the everyday highways and byways of ongoing social relationshi…
"Anger is an emotional response to something that threatens your well-being in some way. Too much anger can damage your body. It can hurt your relationships with others, and it can make you unhappy and miserable. But anger can also be a powerful source of energy that pushes you …
"Anger is an emotional response to something that threatens your well-being in some way. Too much anger can damage your body. It can hurt your relationships with others, and it can make you unhappy and miserable. But anger can also be a powerful source of energy that pushes you …
"Life doesn't always go the way you want it to. You mess up, people let you down, and things don't work out. Anger is a normal response, but it's not always the best one. When you get angry, sometimes you lose control, and that doesn't help anything--in fact, a lot of times it m…