I am analyzing data from a pre-post study where the STAXI-2 was administered to measure changes in levels of anger. The STAXI-2 has 12 summary measures of 3 domains of anger. The "post" statistics are statistically significantly better than "pre" statistics for nearly all of the 12 measures. However, I would like to know what changes make a difference in the person's behavior (e.g. if participants in the study had committed a violent offense, how much of a change in score would indicate that the participant is less likely to be a repeat offender?) I have searched the literature but cannot find a single paper that addresses this question for the STAXI-2 but perhaps I missed them.
I am unfamiliar with this particular instrument. I conduct clinical research on the impact of anger and violence in military combatants. So I am quite familiar with these issues.
I am attaching a few of my articles in this regard as a general reference.
Rich
´Hi Frances,
When you do not find cut points you can compute the mean of your data and apply one Sd or 2 Sd ooch look at the higest 25% compared to the lowest and so on. I attach a paper where we took the mean as a starting point.
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