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The Brief Aggression Questionnaire: Structure, Validity, Reliability, and Generalizability.
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The Brief Aggression Questionnaire: Structure, Validity, Reliability, and Generalizability.

  • Webster GD a Department of Psychology, University of Florida.
  • DeWall CN b Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky.
  • Pond RS c Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
  • Deckman T b Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky.
  • Jonason PK d Department of Psychology, University of Western Sydney , Australia.
  • Le BM e Department of Psychology, University of Toronto , Canada.
  • Nichols AL f Department of Business, University of Navarra , Pamplona , Navarra , Spain.
  • Schember TO a Department of Psychology, University of Florida.
  • Crysel LC g Department of Psychology, Stetson University.
  • Crosier BS h Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Dartmouth College.
  • Smith CV i Department of Psychology, University of Mississippi.
  • Paddock EL j Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology, ETH-Zürich , Switzerland.
  • Nezlek JB k Department of Psychology, College of William and Mary.
  • Kirkpatrick LA k Department of Psychology, College of William and Mary.
  • Bryan AD m Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado , Boulder.
  • Bator RJ n Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
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  • 2015-06-10
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  • Journal of personality assessment. - 2015
Adolescent
Adult
Aggression
Anger
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Female
Hostility
Humans
Male
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Surveys and Questionnaires
Young Adult
English In contexts that increasingly demand brief self-report measures (e.g., experience sampling, longitudinal and field studies), researchers seek succinct surveys that maintain reliability and validity. One such measure is the 12-item Brief Aggression Questionnaire (BAQ; Webster et al., 2014), which uses 4 3-item subscales: Physical Aggression, Verbal Aggression, Anger, and Hostility. Although prior work suggests the BAQ's scores are reliable and valid, we addressed some lingering concerns. Across 3 studies (N = 1,279), we found that the BAQ had a 4-factor structure, possessed long-term test-retest reliability across 12 weeks, predicted differences in behavioral aggression over time in a laboratory experiment, generalized to a diverse nonstudent sample, and showed convergent validity with a displaced aggression measure. In addition, the BAQ's 3-item Anger subscale showed convergent validity with a trait anger measure. We discuss the BAQ's potential reliability, validity, limitations, and uses as an efficient measure of aggressive traits.
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  • English
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