TY - JOUR
T1 - The Brief Aggression Questionnaire
T2 - Structure, Validity, Reliability, and Generalizability
AU - Webster, Gregory D.
AU - DeWall, C. Nathan
AU - Pond, Richard S.
AU - Deckman, Timothy
AU - Jonason, Peter K.
AU - Le, Bonnie M.
AU - Nichols, Austin Lee
AU - Schember, Tatiana Orozco
AU - Crysel, Laura C.
AU - Crosier, Benjamin S.
AU - Smith, C. Veronica
AU - Paddock, E. Layne
AU - Nezlek, John B.
AU - Kirkpatrick, Lee A.
AU - Bryan, Angela D.
AU - Bator, Renée J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2015/11/2
Y1 - 2015/11/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1080/00223891.2015.1044093
DO - 10.1080/00223891.2015.1044093
M3 - Article
C2 - 26055531
AN - SCOPUS:84945437768
SN - 0022-3891
VL - 97
SP - 638
EP - 649
JO - Journal of Personality Assessment
JF - Journal of Personality Assessment
IS - 6
ER -