Evaluation of a Spanish version of the Buss and Perry aggression questionnaire: Some personal and situational factors related to the aggression scores of young subjects

Some Influences on Perception and Justification of Aggression in Themselves and in their Social Environment

“…38 In the present study, an adapted version for Spanish adolescents and pre-adolescents was administered. 32,39 The Cronbach's reliability of the overall scores obtained in the present study was α=.87 and the 95% confidence interval (CI) ranged from .86 to .88. The subscale score reliabilities were: α=.79 (CI .78, .81) for physical aggression, α=.72 (CI .70, .74) for verbal aggression, α=.66 (CI .64, .69) for hostility, and α=.68 (CI .65, .70) for anger.…”

“…Our environment may also offer other risk factors, such as the deterioration of the community, abuse and misuse of mass media, 32 alcohol and illegal drugs, having suffered violence, access to weapons, and discomfort. Related to the latter one, for instance, noise may act as a stress or that causes unwanted aversive changes in an affective state, such as anger.…”

Análise confirmatória fatorial de uma versão portuguesa do Questionário de Agressividade de Buss-Perry

“…Estes resultados foram similares àqueles reportados em estudos prévios e com amostras distintas (Gerevich et al, 2007;Meesters et al, 1996;Nakano, 2001;Ramirez et al, 2001;Santisteban, Alvarado, & Recio, 2007). Não obstante, por comparação com o estudo original, as magnitudes do efeito foram bastante mais modestas para os fatores agressividade física (d=0.70 vs. d=0.89), hostilidade (d=0.09 vs. d=0.19), agressividade verbal (d=0.19 vs. d=0.44) e para a escala total (d=0.31 vs. d=0.57).…”

“…A este nível é ainda de notar os resultados superiores obtidos pelos participantes do sexo feminino por comparação aos do sexo masculino, no fator raiva, o que contrasta com os resultados de alguns estudos (e.g., Buss & Perry, 1992;Fossati et al, 2003;Nakano, 2001;Simões, 1993), mas revela proximidade com outros (e.g., Collani & Werner, 2005;Meesters et al, 1996;Santisteban et al, 2007), que encontraram resultados superiores para as mulheres na escala da raiva. Tal pode dever-se, por um lado ao facto de a amostra ser constituída maioritariamente por elementos do sexo feminino.…”

The moderating role of aggressiveness in response to campaigns and interventions promoting anti‐violence attitudes

“…In order to measure the propensity toward violence, we adopted the same instrument used in the previous study. The Spanish version of the Aggression Questionnaire has also been tested as a valid instrument for preadolescent population (Santisteban, Alvarado, & Recio, 2007). In addition, a few of the items in the Spanish version of the AQ were simplified in wording in order to make them more understandable for children.…”