Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire
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The Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (sometimes referred to as the AGQ or simply the Aggression Questionnaire) was designed Arnold Buss and Mark Perry
, professors from the University of Texas at Austin
in a 1992 article for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
It is a 29 item questionnaire where participants rank certain statements along a 5 point continuum from "extremely uncharacteristic of me" to "extremely characteristic of me." The scores are normalized on a scale of 0 to 1, with 1 being the highest level of aggression.
The questionnaire returns scores for 4 dimensions of aggression:
Mark Perry
Mark Perry may refer to:* Mark Perry , college wrestler at the University of Iowa* Mark Perry , American author* Mark Perry , professor at the University of Michigan...
, professors from the University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
in a 1992 article for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
It is a 29 item questionnaire where participants rank certain statements along a 5 point continuum from "extremely uncharacteristic of me" to "extremely characteristic of me." The scores are normalized on a scale of 0 to 1, with 1 being the highest level of aggression.
The questionnaire returns scores for 4 dimensions of aggression:
- Physical Aggression
- Verbal Aggression
- Anger
- Hostility