Dissertation Articles

Question 1

Geddes and Callister (2007)

Answer 1

Dual Threshold Model of Anger in Organizations -​ which involves an expression threshold which is crossed when individuals communicate rather than suppress anger and an impropriety threshold which is crossed if expressed anger violates organizational emotion display norms. Asserts that observer’s judgments and reactions help determine whether anger results in more negative or positive outcomes. Expressed anger falling between expression and impropriety thresholds leads to more positive outcomes whereas suppressed anger and deviant anger are associated with more negative outcomes.

Question 2

Cooper, Frone, Russell, and Mudar (1995)

Answer 2

Proposed a ​motivational model of alcohol use​ describing how people drink to regulate positive and negative emotions. In essence, states that individuals drink to enhance positive emotions and cope with negative emotions.

Sensation seeking, positive emotion, social enhancement > DTE

Tension Reduction, negative emotion, avoidance/coping > DTC

Question 3

Forbes et al. (2008)

Answer 3

Examined mechanisms of anger and treatment outcomes in combat veterans with PTSD. Found that anger was a predictor of treatment outcome with fear of anger and alcohol comorbidity accounting for the variance between anger and treatment outcomes.

Question 4

Baumeister, Vohs, and Tice (2007)

Answer 4

Strength Model of Self-Control ​which asserts that acts of self-control cause short term impairments (ego depletion) in subsequent self-control even on unrelated tasks. Essentially self-control is a limited resource and is tied to blood glucose as an important source of energy. Strength Model of Self-Control can also be used to explain a variety of negative behaviors such as discrimination, overconsumption, and violence as well as +/- behaviors contributing to MH/wellbeing domains

Question 5

Van Kleef (2009)

Answer 5

Emotions as Social Information (EASI) Model ​Discusses how emotions regulate social life. Asserts that emotional expressions affect observers’ behavior by triggering inferential processes and/or affective reactions in them. Depend on the observer’s information processing and on social-relational factors. Moderators include power, need for cognitive closure, time pressure, display rules, and the appropriateness and target of the emotional expression. Emotional expressions may affect observers’ behavior by providing relevant information about the situation (inferential path) and/or by affecting observers’ emotions and liking of the expresser (affective reactions).

Question 6

Chemtob, Novaco, Hamada, and Gross (1997)

Answer 6

Conducted cognitive behavioral treatment for severe anger with Vietnam-veterans suffering from combat-related PTSD. Treatment effects were found on anger reaction and anger control measures but not anger disposition or physiological measures. Specifically, vets reported an increased capacity to control anger and less intense reactions to anger-provoking situations following treatment. The treatment had no effect on the physiological measures of systolic/diastolic BP, MAP.

Even severely angry patients can increase their control over anger.