We want peace more than we want to actually express our anger and have somebody have to deal with it. It's a lot easier just to suppress it and not make anybody unhappy. Responses to these questions place subjects along a continuum between, as you'd expect, those who display their anger and those who suppress it. A final group of questions identifies the physical manifestations of an anger behavior that isn't working. Most women will buck at the characterization, but statistics bear it out.
Women are more likely to deny their rage than men are.
And really, this should come as little surprise. In is in keeping with traditional notions of femininity. In Cox's and Thomas' surveys, many female subjects described feeling embarrassed and debilitated by their fury. I just keep everything to myself. It's here that Cox steps in, sealed envelope with her results in hand, and awaits her cue.