Evaluation of a Spanish version of the Buss and Perry aggression questionnaire: Some personal and situational factors related to the aggression scores of young subjects

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1453-1465

  Santisteban, Carmen ^a   Alvarado, Jesús M ^a   Recio, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aggression; Aggression questionnaire; Factor analyses; Homework; Media viewing; Reading; Spanish adaptation; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947308434     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.10.019     Document Type: Article

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