Irritability

Parents rated 4 items that ask how easily they are angered or irritated.

• Caprara G, Cinanni V, D’Imperio G, Passerini S, Renzi P, Travaglia G. (1985). Indicators of impulsive aggression: Present status of research on irritability and emotional susceptibility scales. Personality and Individual Differences, 6:665–674

• Di Giunta, L., Rothenberg, W. A., Lunetti, C., Lansford, J. E., Pastorelli, C., Eisenberg, N. Thartori, E., Basili, E., Favini, A., Yotanyamaneewong, S., Alampay, L. P., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., Bornstein, M. H., Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Dodge, K. A., Oburu, P., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., Steinberg, L., Tapanya, S., & Uribe Tirado, L. M. (2020). Longitudinal associations between mothers’ and fathers’ anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents’ socioemotional functioning in nine countries. Developmental Psychology, 56(3), 458–474. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000849.

• Thartori, E., Zuffianò, A., Pastorelli, C., Gerbino, M., Lunetti, C., Favini, A., Basili, E., Di Giunta, L., Bacchini, D., & Lansford, J. E. (2019). Longitudinal relation between state-trait maternal irritability and harsh parenting. PLOS One, 14(1), e0209493.
• Thartori, E., Zuffianò, A., Pastorelli, C., Di Giunta, L., Lunetti, C., Lansford, J. E., Dodge, K. A., & Favini, A. (2018). The interactive effects of maternal personality and adolescent temperament on externalizing behavior problem trajectories from age 12 to 14. Personality and Individual Differences, 134, 301-307.