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The effects of ageing on self-reported direct and indirect aggression measures are partly explained by response bias

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    Identificador: imarina:3654265
    Autores:
    Vigil-Colet, AndreuLorenzo-Seva, UrbanoMorales-Vives, Fabia
    Resumen:
    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.
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    Autor según el artículo: Vigil-Colet, Andreu; Lorenzo-Seva, Urbano; Morales-Vives, Fabia;
    Departamento: Psicologia
    Autor/es de la URV: Lorenzo Seva, Urbano / Morales Vives, Fàbia / Vigil Colet, Andrés
    Palabras clave: Response bias Personality Aggression
    Resumen: 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.
    Áreas temáticas: Serviço social Psychology, multidisciplinary Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Interdisciplinar General psychology Educação Ciencias sociales
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Direcció de correo del autor: urbano.lorenzo@urv.cat andreu.vigil@urv.cat fabia.morales@urv.cat
    Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-5369-3099 0000-0003-3818-4514 0000-0002-2095-0244
    Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-09-07
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.psicothema.com/pi?pii=4254
    URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Psicothema. 27 (3): 209-215
    Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes 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
    DOI del artículo: 10.7334/psicothema2015.32
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2015
    Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
  • Palabras clave:

    Psychology,Psychology (Miscellaneous),Psychology, Multidisciplinary
    Response bias
    Personality
    Aggression
    Serviço social
    Psychology, multidisciplinary
    Psychology (miscellaneous)
    Psychology (all)
    Psychology
    Psicología
    Interdisciplinar
    General psychology
    Educação
    Ciencias sociales
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