Validity Evidence for a Croatian Version of the Conditional Reasoning Test for Aggression

Abstract

The Conditional Reasoning Test for Aggression (CRT‐A) is based on the idea that aggressive individuals use motive‐based cognitive biases to see their behavior as reasonable and that those biases can be measured with inductive reasoning tasks. Although the initial validation efforts for the CRT‐A in the United States have been reasonably successful, there has been no attempt to determine if the evidence of validity and reliability generalizes to other cultural contexts. In this paper, we describe four studies designed to systematically accumulate validity evidence for the CRT‐A using Croatian participants. Our analyses revealed that the Croatian adaptation of the CRT‐A yielded psychometric characteristics that were similar to those obtained on the US samples (Study 1). CRT‐A scores that predicted counterproductive work behaviors occurrence beyond self‐reported personality (Study 2) were independent from general mental ability as measured with an abstract reasoning test (Study 3), and not susceptible to faking (Study 4).

Conditional Reasoning Test for Aggression: Further evidence about incremental validity

“…The Croatian adaptation of the test was created after a careful adaptation process including the translation‐back translation procedure (see Galić et al ). The internal consistency of the CRT‐A in this study was 0.65…”

“…LeBreton, Barksdale, Robin, and James (), and Galić et al () showed that the CRT‐A is resistant to faking when the indirect nature of the measurement is preserved, which is important for personnel selection researchers and practitioners. When respondents were instructed that they were solving a reasoning test, manipulation shown to induce faking using self‐report surveys (i.e., simulated personnel selection) did not produce changes in the CRT‐A scores.…”

“…James and LeBreton () reported incremental validity of the CRT‐A beyond various well‐known measures of self‐reported aggressiveness, irrespective of whether the sample included undergraduates or incumbents. Additionally, Galić et al () reported that, in a sample of incumbents, the CRT‐A predicted CWBs above a Big Five questionnaire scores. Finally, the extant literature has regularly documented that scores on the CRT‐A are uncorrelated with scores on general mental ability (James & LeBreton, ; Galić et al, , Study 3).…”

“…Additionally, Galić et al () reported that, in a sample of incumbents, the CRT‐A predicted CWBs above a Big Five questionnaire scores. Finally, the extant literature has regularly documented that scores on the CRT‐A are uncorrelated with scores on general mental ability (James & LeBreton, ; Galić et al, , Study 3).…”

Alternatives to Self‐Reports

“…To the best of our knowledge, the only systematic evidence of the validity of the conditional reasoning assumptions in a context largely outside the US was recently published for the Croatian validation of the CRT-A (Galić, Scherer, & LeBreton, 2014). To the best of our knowledge, the only systematic evidence of the validity of the conditional reasoning assumptions in a context largely outside the US was recently published for the Croatian validation of the CRT-A (Galić, Scherer, & LeBreton, 2014).…”