Developing and Validating an Experience Sampling Measure of Aggression: The Aggression-ES Scale

Borah, Tridip Jyoti; Murray, Aja Louise; Eisner, Manuel; Jugl, Irina

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“…Future studies should extend these findings using longitudinal data or experimental methods to interpret the causal relationships between IU, rumination, trauma symptoms, and aggression. In addition, for the assessment of aggressive behaviours, we translated and modified the instruction of the Aggression-ES Scale (Borah et al, 2018 ), which was originally designed as an experience sampling tool, and used it as a self-report aggressive behaviour assessment instrument for the last 2 weeks, since there is no other self-report measurement tool for assessing recent aggressive behaviours in Turkish. Lastly, IES-COVID-19 (Vanaken et al, 2020 ) could be further developed by obtaining additional information on the traumatic stressors experienced by the participants, since a pandemic is a period of multiple stressors and potentially traumatizing situations, rather than a single incidence.…”

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“…The Aggression-ES Scale was developed to assess participants’ immediate aggressive behaviour, rather than their trait aggressiveness, by experience sampling methodologies (Borah, Murray, Eisner, & Jugl, 2018 ). Omega reliability for the Aggression-ES Scale was reported to be 0.66 at the within-person level and 0.85 at the between-person level (Murray, Eisner, Ribeaud, & Booth, 2020 ).…”

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Intolerance of uncertainty, rumination, post-traumatic stress symptoms and aggression during COVID-19: a serial mediation model

Çelik

Alpay

Çelebi

et al. 2021

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic can be identified as a source of traumatic stress. Previous studies have shown that post-traumatic stress and intolerance of uncertainty are associated with aggressive behaviour. Objective In the present study, we aimed to test a serial mediation model, considering rumination and post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) as mediators that link intolerance of uncertainty and aggression, while controlling the confounding effect of crisis-induced health and socioeconomic stressors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method A total of 714 participants [533 (74.6%) females, 176 (24.7%) males, aged 18–64 years ( M age = 25.16, SD age = 9.34)] completed the following self-reported scales: Aggression Scale, COVID-19 stressors checklist, Short Version of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale, Impact of Event Scale with Modifications for COVID-19, and Ruminative Thought Style Questionnaire. Results The results revealed that there was an association between intolerance of uncertainty and aggressive behaviours. Moreover, the results of serial mediation analysis showed that intolerance of uncertainty predicts aggressive behaviours via rumination and PTSS. Besides, socioeconomic stressors are significantly associated with the level of PTSS and aggression, while health stressors are not significantly association with the level of PTSS and aggression. Conclusions The findings provide several contributions to understand the link between intolerance of uncertainty and aggressive behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic, and confirm the importance of early psychological intervention, especially for those who are more likely to ruminate and suffer from PTSS, to prevent aggression and violence in the long run. In addition to health-related regulations, it is important to take the social and economic aspects of the crisis into account and develop intervention strategies accordingly. Nevertheless, the limitations of cross-sectional mediation analysis in explaining causal relationships should be kept in mind, and future studies should extend these findings using longitudinal data.

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Intolerance of uncertainty, rumination, post-traumatic stress symptoms and aggression during COVID-19: a serial mediation model

Çelik

Alpay

Çelebi

et al. 2021

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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“…Given that in EMA studies, participants are asked to complete the measures at frequent intervals and on their phones and that longer questionnaires degrade the quality of data that can be obtained, there is a strong pressure to minimize the number of items that participants must complete per session (Eisele et al, 2020). Finally, the pilot study by Borah et al (2018) used a very small convenience sample of n = 23. Therefore, it is important to further evaluate the items in larger, more representative samples.…”

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Validation of a Brief Measure of Aggression for Ecological Momentary Assessment Research: The Aggression-ES-A

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Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) holds significant potential within aggression research. It affords researchers the possibility of collecting data in ecological context, in near real time. However, there is a lack of measures of aggression that have been developed and validated for use in EMA contexts. In this study, we report on the validation of a measure specifically designed to address this need: the Aggression-ES-A. Building on a previous pilot study, we evaluate the within- and between-person reliability, nomological net and associations with a validated trait measure of aggression of the Aggression-ES-A in a sample of N = 255 emerging adults from the Zurich Project on Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (z-proso). Using multilevel confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling, we found support for the factorial validity, reliability, and concurrent validity of the Aggression-ES-A scores. Results support the use of the Aggression-ES-A in EMA studies utilizing community-ascertained samples.

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“…Thus, breadth was traded against reliability, the latter of which could have been increased by increasing the level of redundancy between items at the cost of content validity. Nevertheless, in EMA studies where it is judged less critical to keep measures very brief, researchers may prefer to use the full Aggression-ES measure (Borah et al, 2018), or for general population samples, just the nine-item social/verbal aggression scale. The Aggression-ES-A also showed evidence of concurrent validity.…”

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“…Not at all true Momentary Provocation. Four provocation items were included from the provocations scale developed by Borah et al (2018). Item contents are provided in Table 1.…”

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Validation of a brief measure of aggression for experience sampling research: The Aggression-ES-A

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Eisner²,

Ribeaud³

et al. 2019

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Ecological momentary assessment holds significant potential within aggression research. It affords researchers the possibility of collecting data in ecological context, in near real time. However, there is a lack of measures of aggression that have been developed and validated for use in ecological momentary assessment contexts. In this study we report on the validation of a measure specifically designed to address this need: the Aggression-ES-A. Building on a previous pilot study, we evaluate the within- and between-person reliability, nomological net and associations with a validated trait measure of aggression of the Aggression-ES-A in a sample of N=255 emerging adults from the Zurich Project on Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (z-proso). Using multi-level confirmatory factor analysis (ML-CFA) and structural equation modeling (ML-SEM), we found support for the factorial validity, reliability, and concurrent validity of the Aggression-ES-A scores. Results support the use of the Aggression-ES-A in ecological momentary assessment studies utilising community-ascertained samples.

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Developing and Validating an Experience Sampling Measure of Aggression: The Aggression-ES Scale

Cited by 16 publications

References 28 publications

Intolerance of uncertainty, rumination, post-traumatic stress symptoms and aggression during COVID-19: a serial mediation model

Intolerance of uncertainty, rumination, post-traumatic stress symptoms and aggression during COVID-19: a serial mediation model

Validation of a Brief Measure of Aggression for Ecological Momentary Assessment Research: The Aggression-ES-A

Validation of a brief measure of aggression for experience sampling research: The Aggression-ES-A

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