Author, as appears in the article.: Vigil-Colet, Andreu; Lorenzo-Seva, Urbano; Morales-Vives, Fabia;
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Lorenzo Seva, Urbano / Morales Vives, Fàbia / Vigil Colet, Andrés
Keywords: Response bias Personality Aggression
Abstract: Background: Recent studies have suggested that the age-personality relationship may be partly explained by age-related changes in response bias. In the present study, we analysed how age affected social desirability and acquiescence, and how this effect impacted the ageaggression relationship. Method: We used the Indirect-Direct Aggression Questionnaire, which provides response bias and physical, verbal and indirect aggression scores independently of each other. We applied this test to a sample of 616 individuals aged between 18 and 96 (M = 49.24, SD = 24.81) and analysed the relationships between age and aggression measures with and without response bias. Results: We found that social desirability and acquiescence increased by between one and two standard deviations between adulthood and old age. This affected the age-aggression relationship for all aggression scales and, especially for verbal and indirect aggression, whose relationships with age decreased from r = -.192 and r = -.309 to r =.012 and r = -.159, respectively, when response biases were controlled. Conclusions: When response bias and, in particular social desirability, are not controlled, elderly people tend to show aggression scores that are considerably lower than their true aggression levels.
Thematic Areas: Serviço social Psychology, multidisciplinary Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Interdisciplinar General psychology Educação Ciencias sociales
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: fabia.morales@urv.cat andreu.vigil@urv.cat urbano.lorenzo@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-2095-0244 0000-0003-3818-4514 0000-0001-5369-3099
Record's date: 2023-02-18
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.psicothema.com/pi?pii=4254
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Psicothema. 27 (3): 209-215
APA: Vigil-Colet, Andreu; Lorenzo-Seva, Urbano; Morales-Vives, Fabia; (2015). The effects of ageing on self-reported direct and indirect aggression measures are partly explained by response bias. Psicothema, 27(3), 209-215. DOI: 10.7334/psicothema2015.32
Article's DOI: 10.7334/psicothema2015.32
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2015
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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