The Brief Aggression Questionnaire: Structure, Validity, Reliability, and Generalizability.
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                  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.  | 
        
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| Journal |    :  
                  Journal of personality assessment 
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| Volume |    :  
                  97 
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| Issue |    :  
                  6 
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| Number of Pages |    :  
                  638-49 
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| Date Published |    :  
                  2015 
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| ISSN Number |    :  
                  0022-3891 
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| DOI |    :  
                  10.1080/00223891.2015.1044093 
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| Short Title |    :  
                  J Pers Assess 
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