ANGER INVENTORY
Below is a list of incidents that can sometimes make people angry. Try to imagine each incident happening to you. Think about the extent to which they might make you angry and then indicate how angry you would be by putting a ring around one of the numbers opposite each item.
Put a ring round the numbers as follows:
1 – If this would not make you angry at all
2 – If this would make you a little angry
3 – If this would make you fairly angry
4 – If this would make you really quite angry
5 – If this would make you very, very angry
INCIDENT SCORE
1
You are walking along, minding your own business when someone rushes past you and knocks you to the side.
1 2 3 4 5
2.
Someone calls you a liar.
1 2 3 4 5
3.
You are in the middle of an argument and someone calls you “a stupid idiot”.
1 2 3 4 5
4.
You go for a haircut and the hairdresser cuts you hair shorter than you wanted.
1 2 3 4 5
5.
You are told off for something, when other people who have been doing the same thing are not.
1 2 3 4 5
6.
Arguing with someone who always thinks that they are right.
1 2 3 4 5
7.
You have to wait for a long time to be served in a shop, pub or restaurant.
1 2 3 4 5
8.
You arrive at a shop just as it has closed.
1 2 3 4 5
9.
You get home with a new CD and find that they’ve put the wrong CD in the box.
1 2 3 4 5
10.
You are carrying drinks to a table and someone bumps into you and makes you spill them.
1 2 3 4 5
11.
Seeing someone bully a person who is smaller than they are.
1 2 3 4 5
12.
Being stood up for a date.
1 2 3 4 5
13.
Someone steals something that belongs to you.
1 2 3 4 5
14. You are talking to someone and they’re obviously not
listening. 1 2 3 4 5
15.
Hitting your finger with a nail.
1 2 3 4 5
16.
At the last minute, someone backs out of arrangements you’ve made to go somewhere.
1 2 3 4 5
17.
People who ask you a lot of...