Irritability
Dimension 756 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Irritability measures a proneness to feeling annoyed, grouchy, cranky, or easily provoked into negative mood and friction with others. It encompasses internal states of bad temper as well as outward expressions such as impatience, complaining, grumbling, and cross interpersonal reactions.
evidence final name · Intergroup Contact
Minimal Irritability
Expressions activating this band show little clear irritability, with diffuse distress, coping efforts, general evaluation, or unrelated content rather than a distinct annoyed or grouchy mood.
Mild Irritability
Expressions activating this band show a low-grade negative mood marked by boredom, pessimism, suspicion, sensitivity to minor annoyances, or withdrawal from others. Irritation is present as being bothered easily, but it is not yet a dominant interpersonal stance.
Moderate Irritability
Expressions activating this band show a recognizable irritable temperament, including impatience, grouchiness, discontent, bad mood, and quarrelsome reactions. The mood is readily expressed in disagreements and short-tempered responses to other people.
High Irritability
Expressions activating this band show persistent and salient irritability in social contact, with feeling irritated around people, grumbling, griping, stubbornness, and an unfriendly or cranky manner. The annoyed mood is immediate, outward, and strongly tied to interpersonal presence.
Severe Irritability
Expressions activating this band show intense cross, grumpy, and cranky mood directed at other people. Irritability is experienced as overt bad temper with clear interpersonal targeting.
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Minimal Intergroup Contact: Intergroup contact is present at a low level. Expressions activating this band reflect early or diffuse intergroup contact.
Emerging Intergroup Contact: Intergroup contact is experienced here at a level consistent with formal clinical assessment and disorder-relevant measurement. Unlike the band below, where intergroup contact was characterized by a general or mixed form, the proxy here has shifted in character. Expressions activating this band likely reflect intergroup contact at a clinical or disorder-relevant level.
Elevated Intergroup Contact: Intergroup contact is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where intergroup contact was characterized by the clinical form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band reflect intergroup contact at this level of intensity.
Severe Intergroup Contact: Intergroup contact is experienced here at a level consistent with formal clinical assessment and disorder-relevant measurement. Unlike the band below, where intergroup contact was characterized by a general form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band likely reflect intergroup contact at a clinical or disorder-relevant level.