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The study of adolescence reveals much about externalizing and aggressive problems, but it has yet to pay comparable attention to adolescents’ experiences and expressions of anger. Yet, it is known that anger can sour relationships, contribute to considerable distress, and even play a critical role in the development of psychopathology. It is known, for example, that elevated anger during adolescence links with physical responses (such as higher blood pressure and heart rate) that set adolescents on a path toward elevated health risks (see Hauber et al. 1998). Anger eventually places individuals at risk for long-term health problems that range from hypertension and cardiovascular disease to asthma and headaches to cancer (Rice and Powell 2006). Levels of anger even predict mortality rates (Harburg et al. 2003). Still, research has only begun to examine the origins of anger and its expression, the effects of anger on interpersonal relationships, and anger’s relationship to adolescents’...

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Levesque, R.J.R. (2011). Anger. In: Levesque, R.J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_351

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