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Assessing aggressiveness quickly and efficiently: the Spanish adaptation of Aggression Questionnaire-Refined version

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

David Gallardo-Pujol ,
Uwe Kramp ,
Carlos García-Forero ,
Meritxell Pérez-Ramírez  and
Antonio Andrés-Pueyo
David Gallardo-Pujol*
Affiliation:
Department of Personality, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron 171, 08035Barcelona, Spain
Uwe Kramp
Affiliation:
Department of Personality, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron 171, 08035Barcelona, Spain
Carlos García-Forero
Affiliation:
Department of Personality, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron 171, 08035Barcelona, Spain
Meritxell Pérez-Ramírez
Affiliation:
Department of Personality, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron 171, 08035Barcelona, Spain
Antonio Andrés-Pueyo
Affiliation:
Department of Personality, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron 171, 08035Barcelona, Spain
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address: david.gallardo@ub.edu (D. Gallardo-Pujol).
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Abstract

The assessment of aggressiveness and the prediction of aggression has become a relevant research and applied topic in Psychiatry and Psychology. There have been many attempts in order to get a fast and reliable tool to measure aggression. Buss and Durkee started the pathway, and recently Bryant and Smith developed a tool with an enormous potential, a fast-applicable, reliable and valid test. We herein report a Spanish adaptation of this test and we show that aggressiveness can be measured rapidly, and in a simple, valid and reliable way across different populations. We focus on the discriminant capacity of this test to detect aggressive individuals.

Keywords

AggressionPersonalityImpulsivityQuestionnaires
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European Psychiatry , Volume 21 , Issue 7 , October 2006 , pp. 487 - 494
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Copyright © Elsevier SAS 2006

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