Development and cross-cultural and clinical validation of a brief comprehensive scale for assessing hostility in medical settings.
This study presents the development and validation of a brief comprehensive hostility scale. Two items of each subscale from the Buss-Perry (1992) Aggression Questionnaire, most strongly correlated with their subscale score, were selected, yielding the eight-item New-Buss. Internal reliability was .66 to .81, and full and brief scales correlated r = .92 to .94. In Study 1 (95 Israeli students), New-Buss scores were significantly higher in self-rated deviant or speeding drivers than nondeviant or nonspeeding drivers, respectively. In Study 2 (279 American students), New-Buss scores correlated significantly with Barefoot's Ho, Anger-Out, Anger-In, and Agreeableness. In Study 3 (79 Israeli patients undergoing angiography), New-Buss scores were significantly correlated with coronary artery disease severity independent of SBP in men below age 60 alone but not in women. Our findings support the cross-cultural feasibility, reliability, and concurrent, construct, and criterion validity of the New-Buss.
Gidron
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Department of Sociology of Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of The Negev, Be'er Sheeba 84105, Israel. yorig@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Davidson
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Ilia
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D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000523:psychology; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires