Anger in Mothers of Children with Special Needs

The level of anger in mothers of mentally retarded and slow learning children was compared based on their level of education and employment status. 100 mothers of slow learners and trainable mentally retarded children com- pleted the Multidimensional Anger Inventory (Siegel, 1986) included anger arousal, anger eliciting situations, hostile outlook, anger-out, and anger-in subscales and a demogra- phic information questionnaire. Results of a two-way ANOVA showed that academic educated mothers experienced lower levels of anger arousal and anger-in than nonacademic edu- cated ones.