Five forms of driving-related angry cognitions were identified–Judgmental/Disbelieving Thinking (alpha = .94), Pejorative Labelling/Verbally Aggressive Thinking (alpha = .92), Revenge/Retaliatory Thinking (alpha = .93), Physically Aggressive Thinking ( alpha = .93), and Coping Self-instruction ( alpha = .83). Pejorative labelling/verbally aggressive, physically aggressive, and revengeful/retaliatory thinking correlated positively with each other and with driving anger, aggressive driving anger expression, and aggressive and risky driving behaviour. Coping self-instruction tended to correlate negatively with these variables. Judgmental/disbelieving thinking correlated positively with other forms of angry thinking, but was only somewhat correlated with other variables. Driving-related angry thoughts, except coping self-instruction, correlated positively with general hostile automatic thoughts. Differences in factor structures, strengths of correlations with specific variables, and contributions to regression analyses supported the discriminant and incremental validity of driving-related angry thoughts. Implications for cognitive processes in anger and interventions were discussed. (Author/publisher) Paper also published in Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2003, Vol 27, Iss 4, pp 383-402
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