How Angry Are You? (HAAY)

This How Angry Are You? (HAAY) Assessment Tool assesses the degree of anger and frustration experienced by the client by asking clients to report their degree of anger with respect to environmental stimuli. Stimuli included in the HAAY represent typical events, circumstances, and situations that people are likely to encounter frequently. While most people are likely to become frustrated and/or angry over some of these stimuli to a mild or moderate degree, people who report being very angry due to many of these events may benefit from counseling interventions.

The HAAY contains 25 items (stimuli) and contains a Likert scale with five (N=5) rating categories, indicating the degree to which the client is angry about each stimuli. Note that total scores range from 0 to 125, with higher scores indicating the client is experiencing a higher degree of anger in more frequent situations.

The HAAY can be administered on paper and pencil, during an interview, or over the telephone, and is designed to be non-threatening for clients because of the low degree of inference associated with the items. As always, the HAAY is intended only to provide supplemental information that may be used in practice. No clinical decisions should be made on the basis of the HAAY or any other single instrument.

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					How Angry Are You? (HAAY) Assessment Tool
					1. Being interrupted at work while completing an assignment.
					2. Somebody honking at me while at a red light.
					3. Financial concerns.
					4. Unannounced drop-in visitors at home.
					5. Having trouble finding a parking place.
					6. House repairs/damage (e.g., faulty plumbing, leaking roof, etc.).
					7. Being overcharged for a purchase.
					8. Legal problems.
					9. Waiting in long lines to get service.
					10. Cell phones going off in public places.
					11. Inheriting workload from co-workers who don't pull their own weight.
					12. Lack of vacation time.
					13. Being billed for the wrong amount.
					14. Having an argument with my spouse/partner.
					15. Unruly/noisy children in restaurants.
					16. Traffic delays.
					17. Forgetting things.
					18. Demanding supervisors.
					19. Travel delays during trips.
					20. Disrespectful children.
					21. Tax problems.
					22. Unreasonable work deadlines.
					23. Rude wait staff.
					24. Unpredictable weather changes.
					25. Car trouble.

Sylvia Kay Fisher, Ph.D., Educational Measurement and Evaluation, has significant program evaluation experience and was formerly a counselor and psychological evaluator. Ronnie Fisher, Ed.S. is a retired psychology teacher and a former social worker and counselor. Both are regular contributors to Counselor, The Magazine for Addiction Professionals.