The Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire: An instrument to assess aggression in adolescents

Authors

  • José Manuel Andreu Rodríguez
  • María Elena Peña Fernández
  • Jesús M. Ramírez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/rppc.vol.14.num.1.2009.4065

Keywords:

RPQ, reactive and proactive aggression, confirmatory factor analyses, construct validity, adolescents

Abstract

The psychometrical characteristics of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ), designed by Raine et al. (2006), was examined in this work. When applied to a sample of 732 adolescents from Madrid (360 males and 372 females), the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the bifactorial structural model fitted the data better than the unifactorial model. On the other hand, statistically significant differences were observed in both types of aggression according to sex and age of participants. Males showed higher levels of proactive aggression than females, whereas in all the analyzed age groups, reactive was significantly higher than proactive aggression in men as well as in women. The results obtained in this study suggest that this instrument measures two functional types of aggression associated to different processes and motivational mechanisms in a reliable and valid way.

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Published

2009-04-01

How to Cite

Andreu Rodríguez, J. M., Peña Fernández, M. E., & Ramírez, J. M. (2009). The Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire: An instrument to assess aggression in adolescents. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Psychology   , 14(1), 37–49. https://doi.org/10.5944/rppc.vol.14.num.1.2009.4065

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