Hostility, Personality Correlates of

This chapter provides a description of hostility in a cognitive, affective, and behavioral sense. Various methods of measuring hostility are described, including the Budd-Durkee Hostility Inventory, the Aggression Questionnaire, the Cook-Medley Hostility Inventory, and the Interpersonal Hostility Assessment Technique. The associations between hostility and the Five Factor Personality Model are explained, as well as with the Interpersonal Circumplex. Finally, the relationship between hostility and health is examined, as well as mechanisms involving hostility and treatments of hostility and anger.