Evaluation of a Spanish version of the Buss and Perry aggression questionnaire: Some personal and situational factors related to the aggression scores of young subjects

• Published in: Personality and individual differences Vol. 42; no. 8; pp. 1453 - 1465
• Main Authors: Santisteban, Carmen, Alvarado, Jesús M., Recio, Patricia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2007; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adolescents; Aggression; Aggression questionnaire; Biological and medical sciences; Developmental psychology; Factor analyses; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Homework; Media viewing; Medical sciences; Older children; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychometric properties; Psychometrics; Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Questionnaires; Reading; Spanish adaptation; Techniques and methods; Translation; Validation; Validation; Reading; Aggression; Spanish adaptation; Aggression questionnaire; Media viewing; Factor analyses; Homework; Human; Anger; Affect affectivity; Foreign language version; Questionnaire; Psychometrics; Test reliability; Preadolescent; Test validation; Video game; Television; Correlation analysis; Adolescent; Hostility; Spanish

The psychometric properties of a Spanish translation of the Buss and Perry aggression questionnaire adapted for pre-adolescents and adolescents have been studied. A maximum-likelihood confirmatory factor analysis corroborates Buss and Perry’s four-factor structure. The internal consistency of each f...