Empirically-based typology of anger for children

Terasaka Akiko

doi:10.4092/jsre.18.163

Anger-related problems have been drawing public attention for the last couple of decades. Research and practice have been conducted toward such problems; it is, however, not yet clear that what type of practice is appropriate to what type of children. There is a need to tailor the prevention and intervention program according to children's individual needs. This article describes the importance of the classificational understanding of anger among children, and develops an empirically-based typology of anger for Japanese children, using multi-variables including chronic anger (hostility and irritability), anger experience, destructive expression, and positive coping. Survey is carried out at two points of time, in elementary school and in junior high school, for the same population. Seven subtypes are considered to be appropriate by two-stage clustering procedure, hierarchical and K-means; they are labeled as “Extreme Anger subtype”, “Prosocial subtype”, “Socialized-Aggressive subtype”, “Suppressive subtype”, “High-Arousal Low-Coping subtype”, “Hostile/Irritable subtype”, and “Low-Arousal High-Coping subtype”. Four of these subtypes found in this study show similar profile patterns as the ones in the previous study in the literature. Also, significant difference on depressive mood among these clusters is found. Finally, prevention and intervention approaches for each subtype are suggested.

Empirically-based typology of anger for children

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