"6% Hostility Directed Outward Scale: Destructive, Injurious, Critical Thoughts and Actions Directed to Others

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Hostility Directed Outward

Thoughts and Actions Directed to Others

 

(I) Hostility Outward -- Overt

 

(II) Hostility Outward -- Covert

 

Thematic Categories

 

Thematic Categories

a3

Self killing, fighting, injuring other individuals or threatening to do so.

a3

Others (human) killing, fighting, injuring other individuals or threatening to do so.

b3

Self robbing or abandoning other individuals, causing suffering or anguish to others, or threatening to do so.

b3

Others (human) robbing or abandoning, causing suffering or anguish to other individuals, or threatening to do so.

c3

Self adversely criticizing, depreciating, blaming, expressing anger, dislike of other human beings.

c3

Others adversely criticizing, depreciating, blaming, expressing anger, dislike of other human beings.

a2

Self killing, injuring or destroying domestic animals, pets, or threatening to do so.

a2

Others (human) killing, injuring or destroying domestic animals, pets, or threatening to do so.

b2

Self abandoning, robbing, domestic animals, pets, or threatening to do so.

b2

Others (human) abandoning, robbing, domestic animals, pets, or threatening to do so.

c2

Self criticizing or depreciating others in a vague or mild manner.

c2

Others (human) criticizing or depreciating other individuals in a vague or mild manner.

d2

Self depriving or disappointing other human beings.

d2

Others (human) depriving or disappointing other human beings.

   

e2

Others (human or domestic animals) dying or killed violently in death-dealing situation or threatened with such.

   

f2

Bodies (human or domestic animals) mutilated, depreciated, defiled.

a1

Self killing, injuring, destroying, robbing wildlife, flora, inanimate objects or threatening to do so.

a1

Wildlife, flora, inanimate objects, injured, broken, robbed, destroyed or threatened with such (with or without mention of agent).

b1

Self adversely criticizing, depreciating, blaming, expresing anger or dislike of subhuman, inanimate objects, places, situations.

b1

Others (human) adversely criticizing, depreciating, blaming, expressing anger or dislike of subhuman, inanimate objects, places, situations.

c1

Self using hostile words, cursing, mention of anger or rage without referent.

c1

Others angry, cursing without reference to cause or direction of anger; also instruments of destruction not used threateningly.

   

d1

Others (human, domestic animals) injured, robbed, dead, abandoned or threatened with such from any source including subhuman and inanimate objects, situations (storms, floods, etc.).

   

e1

Subhumans killing, fighting, injuring, robbing, destroying each other or threatening to do so.

   

f1

Denial of anger, dislike, hatred, cruelty, and intent to harm.


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