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In our era of pop-psychology, when partners are eager to go on the Internet to diagnose each other with personality disorders, I’m asked all the time about “the angry personality.”
Neuroticism is a personality trait but not anger. Only when aspects of neuroticism – frustration, envy, jealousy, guilt, depressed mood, loneliness – are blamed on self or others, do they produce anger. Blame is a learned coping mechanism, not a personality trait.
While there’s no “angry personality,” the following attitudes and habits are correlates of chronic anger and resentment.