The role of anger in hypertension

We report a study about the administration of two Dutch questionnaires (the State-Trait Anger Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) to a sample of patients with essential hypertension and to a matched control group. Analyses of the test results demonstrated that some significant differences could be observed in the levels of anxiety and anger. Special attention was paid to certain test-item answers, showing that hypertensives, although feeling irritated and angry, retreat to some extent from showing their anger.