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The Overt Aggression Scale for the objective rating of verbal and physical aggression
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1986The authors describe the design and reliability of a rating scale that measures aggressive behaviors in adults and children. On the Overt Aggression Scale (OAS), aggression is divided into four categories: verbal aggression, physical aggression against objects, physical aggression against self, and physical aggression against others.
S C, Yudofsky +4 more
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Effect of Verbally Aggressive Television Programming on Viewers’ Self-Reported Verbal Aggression
Communication Research Reports, 2015ABSTRACTThis study examined the effect of verbally aggressive media on self-reported verbal aggression. Using a theoretical framework provided by social cognitive theory, participants were randomly assigned to watch either a verbally aggressive television show or a neutral show.
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The dimensionality of the verbal aggressiveness scale
Communication Monographs, 2004Infante and Wigley's (1986) Verbal Aggressiveness Scale (VAS) is a widely accepted and frequently used measure of trait verbal aggression. Although the scale is almost always scored as if it were unidimensional, previous factor analytic studies provide evidence that it is multidimensional with two distinct factors. The present studies (N = 194 and 177)
Timothy R. Levine +5 more
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Voices carry: Effects of verbal and physical aggression on injuries and accident reporting.
Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2018Recent years have witnessed a staggeringly high number of workplace aggressive behaviors as well as employee accidents and injuries. Exposure to workplace aggression is associated with a host of negative psychological, emotional, and physiological ...
Lixin Jiang +3 more
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Verbal aggressiveness or cooperative support?
2014This chapter discusses some preliminary results obtained as part of a broader investigation, which examines whether and how the communication of emotion differs in relation to three cultural groups (French, Italian and Anglo-Australian), with implications for intercultural communication.
Colette Mrowa-Hopkins, Antonella Strambi
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The inhibition of verbally aggressive behaviour
European Journal of Personality, 2004We studied the inhibition of verbal aggression, defined as not displaying verbal aggression when one would want to. The approach we used was based on a situation–response questionnaire containing 15 anger provoking situations and three verbally aggressive responses.
Dirk J. M. Smits +2 more
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Communication Research Reports, 2003
This study explored the effects of student levels of trait verbal aggressiveness (VA) and self‐esteem on student perceptions of instructor verbal aggressiveness in the college classroom. Participants included 228 undergraduate students who completed a series of instruments measuring self‐reported levels of VA and self‐esteem, as well as instructor ...
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This study explored the effects of student levels of trait verbal aggressiveness (VA) and self‐esteem on student perceptions of instructor verbal aggressiveness in the college classroom. Participants included 228 undergraduate students who completed a series of instruments measuring self‐reported levels of VA and self‐esteem, as well as instructor ...
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Verbal aggressiveness: Messages and reasons
Communication Quarterly, 1992The nature of verbal aggression is discussed with an emphasis on its destructiveness. A need to learn more about people who are verbally aggressive is argued because past research has tended to emphasize the situation rather than the person. A study of 181 college students is reported which explored the types of verbally aggressive messages used, the ...
Dominic A. Infante +3 more
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The relationship of argumentativeness to verbal aggression
Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1984This study investigated: (1) whether high, moderate, and low argumentatives differ in how easily they are provoked by an obstinate opponent to select verbally aggressive messages; and, (2) whether the sexes differ in preference for verbal aggression.
Dominic A. Infante +3 more
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