Psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Buss-Warren Aggression Questionnaire

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 943-953

  Maxwell, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Anger; Hostility; Indirect aggression; Rumination; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349155777     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.10.037     Document Type: Article

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