Factor structure and convergent validity of the Aggression Questionnaire in an offender population.

Williams, Tamra Y.; Boyd, Jenine C.; Cascardi, Michele; Poythress, Norman G.

doi:10.1037/1040-3590.8.4.398

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“…Previous research has shown that sex has effects only on PA and VA (Archer et al, 1995;Bernstein & Gesn, 1997;Ramirez, Andreu, & Fuhihara, 2001;Williams, Boyd, Cascardi, & Poythress, 1996) although the effects on VA are much slighter than on PA. Our results, then, seem to confirm that gender effects on AQ are mainly based on the PA scale, being men more physically aggressive than women, and that these effects are stable across samples.…”

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The Relationships between Functional and Dysfunctional Impulsivity and Aggression across Different Samples

2008

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E. S. Barratt proposed the term impulsive aggression to define a kind of aggression that is characterized by acting without thinking because of high levels of impulsivity. Previous research using psychometric measures has shown that impulsivity and aggression are related as far as psychometric measures are concerned. Nevertheless, most of the research has been done with samples of university students. Our research tests whether this relationship is stable across different samples; university students, teenagers and workers. Our results show that impulsivity and aggression have a consistent pattern of relationships across these samples, with impulsivity being specially related to emotional and instrumental aspects of aggression. Furthermore, the effects of anger on aggression seem to show a pattern of relationship that depends on age, with a tendency to physical aggression in young people and verbal aggression in adults. Keywords: impulsivity, impulsive aggression, anger E. S. Barratt ha propuesto el término agresión impulsiva para definir un tipo de agresión que se caracteriza por actuar sin pensar debido a altos niveles de impulsividad. Investigaciones anteriores con medidas psicométricas han mostrado que impulsividad y agresión están relacionadas en lo que a las medidas psicométricas se refiere. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las investigaciones han empleado muestras de estudiantes universitarios. Nuestro trabajo trata de comprobar si esta relación se mantiene en muestras diferentes. Nuestros resultados indican que impulsividad y agresión muestran una pauta de relación consistente across these samples, estando la impulsividad especialmente relacionada con los aspectos emocionales e instrumentales de la agresión. Además, los efectos de la ira sobre la agresión muestran al parecer una pauta de relación dependiente de la edad, encontrándose una tendencia a la agresión física en gente joven y la agresión verbal en adultos. Palabras clave: impulsividad, agresión impulsiva, ira

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The Relationships between Functional and Dysfunctional Impulsivity and Aggression across Different Samples

2008

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“…This measure reliably differentiates between violent and nonviolent participants and correlates with responses to provoking scenarios, peer reports of aggression, and other self-reports of aggression [Harris, 1997;Morren and Meesters, 2002;O'Connor et al, 2001]. Although some research confirms the original factor structure of this measure [e.g., Harris, 1995], other results suggest that the original 29 items do not load sufficiently onto four factors, especially across different populations [Bryant and Smith, 2001;Vigil-Colet et al, 2005;Williams et al, 1996]. Bryant and Smith [2001] proposed a reduced version of the AQ that maintains the four original factors but includes only the three items with the highest loadings on each factor.…”

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Could mindfulness decrease anger, hostility, and aggression by decreasing rumination?

Borders

Earleywine

Jajodia

2009

Aggressive Behavior

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Research suggests that rumination increases anger and aggression. Mindfulness, or present-focused and intentional awareness, may counteract rumination. Using structural equation modeling, we examined the relations between mindfulness, rumination, and aggression. In a pair of studies, we found a pattern of correlations consistent with rumination partially mediating a causal link between mindfulness and hostility, anger, and verbal aggression. The pattern was not consistent with rumination mediating the association between mindfulness and physical aggression. Although it is impossible with the current nonexperimental data to test causal mediation, these correlations support the idea that mindfulness could reduce rumination, which in turn could reduce aggression. These results suggest that longitudinal work and experimental manipulations mindfulness would be worthwhile approaches for further study of rumination and aggression. We discuss possible implications of these results.

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“…The Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ) is a well-known 29-item inventory with four subscales (i.e., Physical Aggression, Verbal Aggression, Anger, and Hostility). It is scored on a 5-point Likert scale and has been shown to have excellent psychometric properties [Buss and Perry, 1992;Tremblay and Ewart, 2005;Williams et al, 1996]. In this study, physical aggression, verbal aggression, trait anger, and hostility were indexed by participants' scores on the Physical Aggression (a 5 .84), Verbal Aggression (a 5 .71), Anger (a 5 .79), and Hostility (a 5 .80) subscales, respectively.…”

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Further evidence for the validity of the Taylor Aggression Paradigm

Giancola

Parrott

2007

Aggressive Behavior

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity of a modified version of the Taylor Aggression Paradigm (TAP) as a measure of direct physical aggression. Hypotheses were generated from recent theory pertinent to the categorization and measurement of aggressive behavior as well as widely supported effects of alcohol intoxication and gender on aggression. Participants were 328 (163 men and 165 women) healthy social drinkers between 21 and 35 years of age who completed self-report personality inventories designed to assess one's propensity toward direct physical aggression, verbal aggression, trait anger, and hostility. Following the consumption of either an alcohol or a placebo beverage, participants were tested on the TAP, in which mild electric shocks were received from, and administered to, a fictitious opponent during a competitive task. Direct physical aggression was operationalized as the shock intensities (i.e., first trial shock intensity, mean shock intensity, proportion of highest shock) administered to the fictitious opponent. Although all self-report measures were significantly associated with the three TAP indices, the associations involving physical aggression were strongest. In addition, self-report measures of physical aggression consistently predicted higher levels of aggression on the TAP indices in men, compared with women, and in intoxicated, relative to sober, participants. Taken as a whole, this pattern of findings provides further evidence for the validity of the TAP as a measure of direct physical aggression for men and women.

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Factor structure and convergent validity of the Aggression Questionnaire in an offender population.

Cited by 108 publications

References 15 publications

The Relationships between Functional and Dysfunctional Impulsivity and Aggression across Different Samples

The Relationships between Functional and Dysfunctional Impulsivity and Aggression across Different Samples

Could mindfulness decrease anger, hostility, and aggression by decreasing rumination?

Further evidence for the validity of the Taylor Aggression Paradigm

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