ABSTRACT
Construction and validation of the Hindi Anger Expression (AX) Scale followed the same general approach that had proved successful in developing the Hindi adaptations of the third author's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and Test Anxiety Inventory. To establish the equivalence of the Hindi AX Scale with the original English scale, both forms were administered to 160 bilingual university students (80 males, 80 females). Comparable means, standard deviations, and internal consistency reliability coefficients, and very high correlations for both males and females between scores on the AX Scale and all three subscales, documented the equivalence of the Hindi and English forms. Evidence of the construct validity and predictive power of the Hindi AX Scale was reported based on the results of eight studies conducted in India with samples of graduate students, electrical engineers, nurses, and patients suffering from essential hypertension, bronchial asthma, and chronic peptic ulcer.
