Amir Mohammad Shahsavarani - Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Sima Noohi - Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Saeideh Jafari - Institute of PsychoBioSocioEconomic Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Maryam Hakimi Kalkhoran - Institute of PsychoBioSocioEconomic Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

Introduction: Assessment and measurement of anger have been an interesting subject forexperts in psychological and social sciences and have been done in varied forms especially inthree different populations of ordinary, clinical, and military clusters.Method: In the present systematic review, keywords include “anger assessment, angermeasurement, anger assessment instruments, standardization of anger assessment instruments,standardization of anger measurement instruments, and anger test”. These keywords weresearched in “PubMed, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, Google Patent, MagIran, SID, Proquest,Ebsco, Springer, IEEE, Kolwer, & IranDoc” search engines. According to the relation betweenthe study sections, academic publishing, publishing after 2000 and Jadad system relevantsources were selected. The manuscripts were then finalized by the evaluation of five expertsin anger domain via the Delphi method.Results: According to analyses of ordinary, clinical, and military populations, four specificand three general-purpose instruments of anger assessment have been found which have atleast more than three studies of standardization and validation.Conclusion: According to the study findings, it is proposed to validate, and standardize NASPIin different populations in order to anger assessment and investigation in healthy and nonclinical,clinical and pathological, as well as military populations. The lack of biological andphysiological anger assessment instruments is discussed as well.

Anger, Anger Assessment, Anger Measurement, Systematic Review, Jadad Method, Delphi Method