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Anger ranking quiz: heart attack risk test
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Copyright 1997 Nando.net Copyright 1997 Cox News Service
(July 26, 1997 10:27 a.m. EDT) -- Harvard researchers used this quiz to
rank anger levels of 1,300 people in a study of temper and heart risks. To
gauge your "anger ranking," give yourself one point for each "true" answer
to questions 1-15 and one point for a "false" answer to question 16.
1. At times I feel like swearing.
2. At times I feel like smashing things.
3. Often I can't understand why I have been so irritable and grouchy.
4. At times I feel like picking a fist fight with someone.
5. I easily become impatient with people.
6. I am often said to be hotheaded.
7. I am often so annoyed when someone tries to get ahead of me in a line
of people that I speak to that person about it.
8. I have at times had to be rough with people who were rude or annoying.
9. I am often sorry because I am so irritable and grouchy.
10. It makes me angry to have people hurry me.
11. I am very stubborn.
12. Sometimes I get so angry and upset I don't know what comes over me.
13. I have gotten angry and broken furniture or dishes when I was drinking.
14. I've become so angry with someone that I have felt as if I would
explode.
15. I've been so angry at times that I've hurt someone in a physical fight.
16. I almost never lose self-control.
Ranking grades:
0-1: Low risk -- about what an average person faces
2-4: 2.7 times the risk of having an anger-induced heart attack than the
average person
5-14: 3.5 times the risk of an average person
Source: Harvard School of Public Health
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