On the dimensionality of the Buss/Perry Aggression Questionnaire

On the dimensionality of the Buss/Perry Aggression Questionnaire

Buss and Perry (1992, Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 452–459) developed a 29-item test that presumably measures four aggression-related dimensions (physical aggression, verbal aggression, hostility, and anger). This study examined the factor structure of the items with particular concern tow...

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Published in:Behaviour research and therapy Vol. 35; no. 6; pp. 563 - 568
Main Authors: Bernstein, Ira H., Gesn, P.Randall
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01-06-1997
Elsevier Science
Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects:
Adult
Aggression - psychology
Aggressiveness
Anger
Biological and medical sciences
Female
Hostility
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics
Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Questionnaires
Reference Values
Reproducibility of Results
Techniques and methods
Human
Test validation
Dimensionality
Factor analysis
Questionnaire
Psychometrics
Aggressiveness
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Summary:Buss and Perry (1992, Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 452–459) developed a 29-item test that presumably measures four aggression-related dimensions (physical aggression, verbal aggression, hostility, and anger). This study examined the factor structure of the items with particular concern towards seeing how much of the structure previously noted was an artifact of differences in item distributions. Although the scales are intercorrelated to the point that they may not span four dimensions, the scales are in fact multivariate in that the structure is not an artifact of differences in item distributions found with other presumed multifactor scales.
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ISSN:0005-7967
1873-622X
DOI:10.1016/S0005-7967(97)00014-4