title: The Brief Aggression Questionnaire: Structure, Validity, Reliability, and Generalizability.
abstract: In contexts that increasingly demand brief self-report measures (e.g., experience sampling, longitudinal and field studies), researchers seek succinct surveys that maintain reliability and validity. One such measure is the 12-item Brief Aggression Questionnaire (BAQ; Webster et al., 2014), which uses 4 3-item subscales: Physical Aggression, Verbal Aggression, Anger, and Hostility. Although prior work suggests the BAQ's scores are reliable and valid, we addressed some lingering concerns. Across 3 studies (N = 1,279), we found that the BAQ had a 4-factor structure, possessed long-term test-retest reliability across 12 weeks, predicted differences in behavioral aggression over time in a laboratory experiment, generalized to a diverse nonstudent sample, and showed convergent validity with a displaced aggression measure. In addition, the BAQ's 3-item Anger subscale showed convergent validity with a trait anger measure. We discuss the BAQ's potential reliability, validity, limitations, and uses as an efficient measure of aggressive traits.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology, University of Florida.
authors.forename: Gregory D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Webster
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky.
authors.forename: C Nathan
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: DeWall
authors.affiliation: c Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
authors.forename: Richard S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Pond
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky.
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Deckman
authors.affiliation: d Department of Psychology, University of Western Sydney , Australia.
authors.forename: Peter K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Jonason
authors.affiliation: e Department of Psychology, University of Toronto , Canada.
authors.forename: Bonnie M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Le
authors.affiliation: f Department of Business, University of Navarra , Pamplona , Navarra , Spain.
authors.forename: Austin Lee
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Nichols
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology, University of Florida.
authors.forename: Tatiana Orozco
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: Schember
authors.affiliation: g Department of Psychology, Stetson University.
authors.forename: Laura C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Crysel
authors.affiliation: h Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Dartmouth College.
authors.forename: Benjamin S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Crosier
authors.affiliation: i Department of Psychology, University of Mississippi.
authors.forename: C Veronica
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: j Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology, ETH-Zürich , Switzerland.
authors.forename: E Layne
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Paddock
authors.affiliation: k Department of Psychology, College of William and Mary.|l University of Social Sciences and Humanities , Poznań , Poland.
authors.forename: John B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Nezlek
authors.affiliation: k Department of Psychology, College of William and Mary.
authors.forename: Lee A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Kirkpatrick
authors.affiliation: m Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado , Boulder.
authors.forename: Angela D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Bryan
authors.affiliation: n Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
authors.forename: Renée J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Bator
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D000786:Anger; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult