The brief aggression questionnaire: psychometric and behavioral evidence for an efficient measure of trait aggression

Abstract

A key problem facing aggression research is how to measure individual differences in aggression accurately and efficiently without sacrificing reliability or validity. Researchers are increasingly demanding brief measures of aggression for use in applied settings, field studies, pretest screening, longitudinal, and daily diary studies. The authors selected the three highest loading items from each of the Aggression Questionnaire's (Buss & Perry, 1992) four subscales--Physical Aggression, Verbal Aggression, anger, and hostility--and developed an efficient 12-item measure of aggression--the Brief Aggression Questionnaire (BAQ). Across five studies (N = 3,996), the BAQ showed theoretically consistent patterns of convergent and discriminant validity with other self-report measures, consistent four-factor structures using factor analyses, adequate recovery of information using item response theory methods, stable test-retest reliability, and convergent validity with behavioral measures of aggression. The authors discuss the reliability, validity, and efficiency of the BAQ, along with its many potential applications.

Parental Acceptance and Control as Predictors of Different Forms of Aggression Among Turkish Emerging Adults

“…The current study provided further insights into the functions of the sociodemographic control variables used in regression analysis. Consistent with previous literature, male emerging adults had higher scores for physical aggression, verbal aggression, and total aggression than female emerging adults ( Buss & Perry, 1992 ; Ramirez et al, 2001 ; Webster et al, 2014 ). In line with other findings regarding inconsistent sex differences in anger and hostility among college student samples, no significant differences were found between males and females regarding anger and hostility ( Bernstein & Gesn, 1997 ; Fossati et al, 2003 ; Harris & Knight-Bohnhoff, 1996 ).…”

Facultative formidability: Physical size shapes men’s aggressive traits and behaviors in sports.

“…Because we made no a priori predictions regarding the samples, we tested sample-level differences-and interactions involving sample-level differencesusing omnibus, two-degree-of-freedom tests. As predicted, we found a significant Sex ϫ Weight interaction for Physical Aggression, but (Webster et al, 2014(Webster et al, , 2015 Sex ϫ Weight interaction did not vary significantly across the three samples for either Physical Aggression or the other measures. No Sex ϫ Weight interaction was found in the analyses of Anger.…”

Psychometric Properties of Turkish Version of Aggression Questionnaire Short Form: Measurement Invariance and Differential Item Functioning across Sex and Age

“…In terms of reliability, internal consistency and test-retest reliability scores were calculated. While the Cronbach Alpha scores in the present study are acceptable similar to the original form (Bryant & Smith, 2001), the test-retest reliability scores are higher than the original form of the questionnaire (Buss and Perry, 1992) and most of the previous studies (Harris, 1997;Surís, Borman, Lind, & Kashner, 2007;Webster et al 2014). The differences were found between the responses of the individuals with low and high scores in adolescent and adult groups.…”