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Focused Use <strong>of</strong> Personal Energy items) – (Unproductive and Focused Use <strong>of</strong> Personal<br />

Energy items); Negative/Frustrated equaled (Negative Affect items + Lapses in Impulse<br />

Control + Positive Reactions to Frustration and Conflict items); Positive equaled<br />

(Positive Affect items – Unusual Behavi<strong>or</strong> items). These specific aggregates have not<br />

bef<strong>or</strong>e been used in previous research.<br />

Cronbach‘s alpha and c<strong>or</strong>relations <strong>of</strong> each item and its c<strong>or</strong>responding MPAC<br />

subscale (Positive Affect; Negative Affect; Inappropriate Affect; Productive, Focused<br />

Use <strong>of</strong> Personal Energy; Unproductive, Unfocused Use <strong>of</strong> Personal Energy; Lapses in<br />

Impulse Control and Negative Responses to Frustration, Conflict, and Other Emotionally<br />

Arousing Situations; Positive Responses to Frustration, Conflict, and Other Emotionally<br />

Arousing Situations; Unusual Behavi<strong>or</strong>; Social Isolation; Hostility; Skills in Leading and<br />

Joining; <strong>or</strong> Empathy and Prosocial Behavi<strong>or</strong>) were calculated f<strong>or</strong> this study. Several pre-<br />

and post-intervention MPAC subscale items had zero variance and so were excluded<br />

from reliability analyses: one item was excluded from the pre-intervention analysis f<strong>or</strong><br />

the Positive Responses to Frustration, Conflict, and Other Emotionally Arousing<br />

Situations subscale; and one item was excluded from post-intervention analyses f<strong>or</strong> both<br />

the Positive Affect and Unproductive, Unfocused Use <strong>of</strong> Personal Energy subscales; and<br />

several items were excluded from both pre- and post-intervention analyses f<strong>or</strong> the<br />

Negative Affect, Inappropriate Affect, Lapses in Impulse Control and Negative<br />

Responses to Frustration, Conflict, and Other Emotionally Arousing Situations, and<br />

Unusual Behavi<strong>or</strong> subscales.<br />

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