title: Self-report vs. laboratory measures of aggression as predictors of substance abuse.
abstract: Measures of aggressive behavior, antisocial personality, criminality, and impulsivity were obtained on a sample of 85 drug abusing volunteers for studies at the Addiction Research Center in Baltimore. Measures included the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, Diagnostic Interview Schedule Antisocial Personality Disorder diagnosis, Elliott-Huizinga Lifetime Events Scale, Eysenck's Impulsiveness-Venturesomeness-Empathy scales, and a laboratory measure of aggression patterned after the Buss 'aggression machine'. All of the self-report measures of aggression and antisocial personality were moderately correlated with each other, but did not correlate with the laboratory aggression measure. This laboratory measure, nevertheless, made a significant contribution to the prediction of certain substance abuse diagnoses over and above the contributions of the other measures.
authors.affiliation: National Institute on Drug Abuse Addiction Research Center, Baltimore, MD 21224.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Muntaner
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Walter
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nagoshi
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fishbein
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Haertzen
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Jaffe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D010556:Personality Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*