| Test: | Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, BDHI |
| Link: | persistent link: https://psytests.org/result?v=abdaDe91E2X |
Assault | 7 | |
Indirect Hostility | 6 | |
Irritability | 4 | |
Verbal Hostility | 6 | |
Resentment | 3 | |
Suspicion | 4 | |
Negativism | 3 | |
Guilt | 5 | |
| low ⇒ average ⇒ high level | ||
norms by authors
• Assault – physical violence against others. This includes getting into fights with others but not destroying objects.
• Indirect Hostility – both roundabout and undirected aggression. Roundabout behavior like malicious gossip or practical jokes is indirect in the sense that the hated person is not attacked directly but by devious means. Undirected aggression, such as temper tantrums and slamming doors, consists of a discharge of negative affect against no one in particular; it is a diffuse rage reaction that has no direction.
• Irritability – a readiness to explode with negative affect at the slightest provocation. This includes quick temper, grouchiness, exasperation, and rudeness.
• Verbal Hostility – negative affect expressed in both the style and content of speech. Style includes arguing, shouting, and screaming; content includes threats, curses, and being overcritical.
• Resentment – jealousy and hatred of others. This refers to a feeling of anger at the world over real or fantasied mistreatment.
• Suspicion – projection of hostility onto others. This varies from merely being distrustful and wary of people to beliefs that others are being derogatory or are planning harm.
• Negativism – oppositional behavior, usually directed against authority. This involves a refusal to cooperate that may vary from passive noncompliance to open rebellion against rules or conventions.
• Guilt – feelings of being bad, having done wrong, or suffering pangs of conscience.