The Brief Irritability Test (BITe)
Psychology: Mental Health1 sample item
About this scale
Irritability is state of mind in which people get more easily frustrated, annoyed, and angry than normally. Most people will have been irritable at some point in their life. Irritability is a side effect of many medical conditions. It also has been reported to occur following caffeine (the stimulant in coffee and tea) or nicotine (the stimulant in tabacco) withdrawal. Canadian researchers ( Holtzman et al., 2015 ) have developed a 5-item questionnaire to m
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Source & citation
Holtzman, S., O’Connor, B.P., Barata, P.C., and Stewart, D.E. (2015). The Brief Irritability Test (BITe): A Measure of Irritability for Use Among Men and Women. Assessment, 22 , 101-115. Read it for free via the US National Library of Medicine .
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