Development and validation of a short form aggressive beliefs and attitudes scale |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Medicine and Access, Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, United Kingdom; Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom; Institute of Liver Studies, King''s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom;2. UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, London, United Kingdom;3. Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom;4. Mass Gatherings and Global Health Network, London, United Kingdom;1. Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina;2. North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina;3. Independent researcher, Royal Oak, Michigan;4. Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut;5. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut;6. Department of Health Education and Promotion, College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina;7. School of Social Work, College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina;1. Department of Psychology, University of Westminster, London, UK;2. Department of Psychology, HELP University College London, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;3. Department of Clinical, Health, and Educational Psychology, University College London, London, UK;1. Washington State University, United States;2. The University of Southern Mississippi, United States |
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| Abstract: | This research outlines six studies (total N = 3867) that develop and validate an Aggressive Beliefs and Attitudes — Short Form scale for use within the normal nonclinical adult population (e.g., organizational psychology). In the first two samples, exploratory factor analysis reduced the original 30 item scale to a shorter, more parsimonious, eight item measure. In the third sample, confirmatory factor analysis found that the proposed model and items fit the data extremely well. Examination of the nomological network underlying the new measure in Samples 3–4 displayed relationships with positive affect, negative affect, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism ranging from r = .23 to − .23, while relationships with anger, hostility, physical aggression, and verbal aggression ranged from r = .49 to .30. Finally, in two criterion-related validity studies the relationships between the aggressive beliefs and attitudes scales, both original and short forms, and workplace deviance were examined with independent samples of employed adults. The short form scale was significantly related to workplace deviance in both samples (r = .37 and .43). Furthermore, these relationships were of identical magnitude to the full 30 item measure, suggesting that the short form scale comparably captures aggression-related behaviors with a greatly reduced number of items. |
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