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Abstract
Two studies examined the interrelationships of anger, the experience of stress, perceived social support, and coping strategies along with their relationship to health using structural equation modelling (SEM). Results showed dispositional anger to be composed of two factors, anger experience and anger control. Higher levels of anger experience were related directly to higher levels of stress and lower levels of perceived support resources, indirectly to greater use of avoidance coping, and both directly and indirectly to lower psychological well-being and greater psychological distress. Psychological distress was, in turn, related to poorer physical health. By contrast, higher levels of anger control were associated with a greater tendency to engage in active and reappraisal coping and lower use of avoidance coping. Active and reappraisal coping were, in turn, related to better psychological and physical health whereas the opposite was true for avoidance coping.
Acknowledgment
This research was funded by grant no. R-107-000-007-012 from the National University of Singapore with supplemental funds from the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore Police Force.
Notes
Item parcelling is a technique used in structural equation modelling whereby individual items from a scale are randomly assigned to sets and then averaged for use as indicators in the analysis. The purpose is to reduce the number of indicators to a manageable number while retaining enough indicators for a stable solution. For a detailed discussion of parcelling please see Bandalos and Finney (Citation2001).
In the interests of space the initial analyses are not reported here. Details are available from the first author.
Due to small sample sizes for each ethnic groups (approximately 83 per group), it was not possible to test the hypothesised model for each ethnic group for measurement invariance.
