The participants’ trait anger, meaning their general tendency to experience anger, was measured using a standardized questionnaire called the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2.

we assign meaning to them based on our interpretations. When we react in anger, we often view events through a narrow lens, reinforcing negative emotions and rigid perspectives. Reframing is the ...

However, those people who retained their paper experienced only a small reduction in their overall anger. "The meaning (interpretation) of disposal plays a critical role," the researchers concluded.

Anger is an emotion which has usually been caused by an event or series of events which the performer has had a reaction to. This could be because they have been offended, denied or wronged.

I’m a woman in my sixties who still doesn’t know how to manage my anger.