Repositori institucional URV
| URV's Author/s: | Lorenzo Seva, Urbano / Morales Vives, Fàbia / Vigil Colet, Andrés |
| Author, as appears in the article.: | Vigil-Colet, Andreu; Lorenzo-Seva, Urbano; Morales-Vives, Fabia; |
| Author's mail: | urbano.lorenzo@urv.cat andreu.vigil@urv.cat fabia.morales@urv.cat |
| Author identifier: | 0000-0001-5369-3099 0000-0003-3818-4514 0000-0002-2095-0244 |
| Journal publication year: | 2015 |
| Publication Type: | Journal Publications |
| 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 |
| Papper original source: | Psicothema. 27 (3): 209-215 |
| 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. |
| Article's DOI: | 10.7334/psicothema2015.32 |
| Link to the original source: | https://www.psicothema.com/pi?pii=4254 |
| Papper version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
| licence for use: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ |
| Department: | Psicologia |
| Licence document URL: | https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/ |
| Thematic Areas: | Serviço social Psychology, multidisciplinary Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Interdisciplinar General psychology Educação Ciencias sociales |
| Keywords: | Response bias Personality Aggression |
| Entity: | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| Record's date: | 2024-09-07 |
| Search your record at: |   |
| File | Description | Format | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DocumentPrincipal | DocumentPrincipal | application/pdf |
© 2011 Universitat Rovira i Virgili