Aggression Questionnaire hostility scale predicts anger in response to mistreatment

Felsten, Gary; Hill, Virgil

doi:10.1016/s0005-7967(98)00104-1

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“…Based on the normative sample reported in the manual, the AQ obtained an alpha coefficient of .90 for the total score. The AQ has been demonstrated to have good predictive validity (Felsten & Hill, 1999) and convergent validity with other measures of trait aggression (Garcia-Leon et al, 2002). Within the current sample, the AQ obtained an alpha coefficient of .85.…”

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Violent Video Games and Aggression

Ferguson

Rueda

Cruz

et al. 2008

Criminal Justice and Behavior

248

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Two studies examined the relationship between exposure to violent video games and aggression or violence in the laboratory and in real life. Study 1 participants were either randomized or allowed to choose to play a violent or nonviolent game. Although males were more aggressive than females, neither randomized exposure to violent-video-game conditions nor previous real-life exposure to violent video games caused any differences in aggression. Study 2 examined correlations between trait aggression, violent criminal acts, and exposure to both violent games and family violence. Results indicated that trait aggression, family violence, and male gender were predictive of violent crime, but exposure to violent games was not. Structural equation modeling suggested that family violence and innate aggression as predictors of violent crime were a better fit to the data than was exposure to video game violence. These results question the common belief that violent-video-game exposure causes violent acts.

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confidence: 65%

Violent Video Games and Aggression

Ferguson

Rueda

Cruz

et al. 2008

Criminal Justice and Behavior

248

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“…First, the validation of the scale was examined only in restricted samples which were not representative of an adult population (Harris, 1995;Harris and KnightBohnhoff, 1996;Lovaš and Trenková, 1996;Meesters et al, 1996;Bernstein and Gesn, 1997;Ando et al, 1999;Felsten and Hill, 1999;Bryant and Smith, 2001;Nakano, 2001;Ramirez et al, 2001;García-Leon et al, 2002;Morren and Meesters, 2002;Fossati et al, 2003;Gallardo et al, 2004;Collani and Werner, 2005;Palmer and Thakordas, 2005;Vigil-Colet et al, 2005). This creates a problem because individuals, who are at risk of displaying aggressive and hostile behaviours are not restricted to those samples that have been subjected to psychometric testing regarding the application of the scale (e.g.…”

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The generalizability of the Buss–Perry Aggression Questionnaire

Gerevich

Bácskai²,

Czobor

2007

Int J Methods Psych Res

137

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Aggressive and hostile behaviours and anger constitute an important problem across cultures. The Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (AQ), a self-rating scale was published in 1992, and has quickly become the gold-standard for the measurement of aggression. The AQ scale has been validated extensively, but the validation focused on various narrowly selected populations, typically, on samples of college students. Individuals, however, who are at risk of displaying aggressive and hostile behaviours may come from a more general population. Therefore, it is important to investigate the scale's properties in such a population. The objective of this study was to examine the factorial structure and the psychometric properties of the AQ scale in a nationally representative sample of the Hungarian adult population.A representative sample of 1200 subjects was selected by a two-step procedure. The dimensionality and factorial composition of the AQ scale was investigated by exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Since spurious associations and increased factorial complexity can occur when the analysis fails to consider the inherently categorical nature of the item level data, this study, in contrast to most previous studies, estimated the correlation matrices subjected to factor analysis using the polychoric correlations. The resulting factors were validated via sociodemographic characteristics and psychopathological scales obtained from the respondents. The results showed that based on the distribution of factor loadings and factor correlations, in the entire nationally representative sample of 1200 adult subjects, from the original factor structure three of the four factors (Physical and Verbal Aggression and Hostility) showed a good replication whereas the fourth factor (Anger) replicated moderately well. Replication further improved when the sample was restricted in age, i.e. the analysis focused on a sample representing the younger age group, comparable to that used in the original Buss-Perry study. Similar to the Buss-Perry study, and other investigations of the AQ scale, younger age and male gender were robustly related to physical aggression. In addition, level of verbal aggression was different between the two genders (with higher severity in males) whereas hostility and anger were essentially the same in both genders.In conclusion, the current study based on a representative sample of adult population lends support to the use of the AQ scale in the general population. The authors suggest to exclude from the AQ the two inverse items because of the low reliability of these items with regard to their hypothesized constructs.

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“…Según Felsen y Hill 1999 (40), las puntuaciones altas en la escala de hostilidad están asociadas de forma significativa con un mayor nivel de ira en respuesta al maltrato personal. Esto quiere decir que a los seis meses de tratamiento los pacientes aumentan la hostilidad en respuesta al maltrato personal, es decir, un efecto de la terapia es aprender a defenderse y protegerse de la agresión externa, del maltrato ajeno (41). Pero además de las teorías anteriormente expuestas, debemos remitirnos al resultado de los ítems que se aplican a la variable "hotilidad" en el cuestionario AQ.…”

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En qué cambian los pacientes drogodependientes a los seis meses de tratamiento en la comunidad terapéutica

Río

2012

Rev. Asoc. Esp. Neuropsiq.

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Aggression Questionnaire hostility scale predicts anger in response to mistreatment

Cited by 61 publications

References 22 publications

Violent Video Games and Aggression

Violent Video Games and Aggression

The generalizability of the Buss–Perry Aggression Questionnaire

En qué cambian los pacientes drogodependientes a los seis meses de tratamiento en la comunidad terapéutica

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