Consistency of the Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire in Peruvian female university nursing students
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aggression, reliability, violence, aggressive behavior, surveys, questionnaires, women, BPAQ aggression questionnaireAbstract
Introduction: aggressive behavior is part of the disruptive impulse control and behavioral disorders established in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – Fifth Edition (DSM-V).
Objective: to evaluate the consistency of the Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire (short version) in Peruvian university nursing students.
Method: an observational, descriptive and cross-sectional psychometric instrumental study was carried out in a population of 374 university students. 175 students were included by simple random sampling. The BPAQ was used as an instrument, adapted to Spanish and validated in university students from the city of Medellín (Colombia) by Castrillón. Cronbach's alpha, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin and Bartlett's sphericity tests were calculated and exploratory and confirmatory factor analyzes were performed.
Results: the 15-item model with two dimensions (D1=1,2,3,4,5,6,7; D2=8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15) presented SRMR and CFI values equal to 0.081 and 0.993, respectively, but with high error values in items 9 to 11, while the model that includes items 13 and 14 in D1 maintained adequate fit indices, but with reduced error values, in addition to having factor loadings greater than 0.7 in all items and adequate reliability (α=0.92 for D1 and α=0.90 for D2).
Conclusions: the 15-item aggression questionnaire (short version) is reliable for its application in young Peruvian university students.
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