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The Short Version of the Metacognitive Anger Processing Scale (MAP-SV) – initial psychometric testing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2021

Stine Bjerrum Moeller Open the ORCID record for Stine Bjerrum Moeller [Opens in a new window] ,
Sophie Juul  and
Ida-Marie T. P. Arendt Open the ORCID record for Ida-Marie T. P. Arendt [Opens in a new window]
Stine Bjerrum Moeller*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Sophie Juul
Affiliation:
Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ida-Marie T. P. Arendt
Affiliation:
Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark
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*Corresponding author. Email: stinebm@health.sdu.dk
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Abstract

Background:

The 26-item version of the Metacognitive Anger Processing Scale (MAP) has shown good psychometric properties in previous studies. However, there is a need for a shorter version of the scale.

Aims:

The aim of the present study is to psychometrically evaluate the 9-item Metacognitive Anger Processing Scale – Short Version (MAP-SV) in comparison with the original, 26-item version.

Method:

The 26-item MAP includes three subscales: rumination, positive beliefs and negative beliefs. Three items from each subscale were selected based on clinical validity to constitute the 9-item MAP-SV. A previous sample used for validation of the 26-item MAP was used for clinimetric testing. The sample included psychiatric patients (n = 88) and male forensic inpatients (n = 54). The MAP-SV was assessed according to scalability, convergent validity with general metacognition, and concurrent validity with anger measures.

Results:

The scalability of the 9-item MAP-SV was comparable to that of the original 26-item MAP in most psychometric tests. The Loevinger’s coefficient of homogeneity for the total score of the MAP-SV items was 0.29 for the combined sample compared with 0.36 in the original MAP, indicating close to acceptable scalability. The alpha coefficient for the MAP-SV total score was 0.79. For the combined sample, Pearson inter-correlations between the subscales of the MAP-SV were highly correlated with the MAP-SV total score (ranging from .66 to .84).

Conclusions:

The 9-item MAP-SV showed good psychometric properties and can be used as a reliable tool for assessing self-reported metacognitive anger processing.

Keywords

angerassessment toolmetacognitive anger processingmetacognitive beliefsruminationshort version
Type
Brief Clinical Report
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 117 - 121
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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