Chapter XLVII The Aggression Questionnaire (original) (raw)

We describe two short-form versions of the selfreport aggression questionnaire initially developed by Buss and Perry (1992). Often referred to as the Buss-Perry aggression questionnaire (BPAQ), the original inventory consists of 29 items that measure four aspects of trait aggressiveness-anger, hostility, verbal-and physical-aggression-that are typically used both individually and/or combined to create an overall aggressiveness index. The BPAQ is the successor of the Buss-Durkee hostility inventory (Buss & Durkee, 1957). Perhaps more appropriate for Internet-based research are the AQ-12 and AQ-15 short forms derived from two different efforts to refine the BPAQ. One effort resulted in the AQ-12 (Bryant & Smith, 2001, p. 150), which uses 12 of the original 29 AQ items. The other effort yielded the AQ-15 by drawing from a 34-item AQ revision by the same authors (Buss & Warren, 2000, pp. 13, 65), and also from the AQ-12. Comparing the AQ-12 and AQ-15 reveals almost identical items for the anger, hostility, verbal-and physical-aggression subscales. The