Citation

Golomb BA, Cortez-Perez M, Jaworski BA, Mednick S, Dimsdale J. Violence Vict. 2007; 22(1): 95-103.

Affiliation

Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0995, USA. bgolomb@ucsd.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Springer Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17390565

Abstract

The Point Subtraction Aggression Paradigm (PSAP) is a validated behavioral measure of aggression in response to provocation. Canonically, multiple sessions continue until performance asymptotes, requiring significant time. We sought to examine whether use of the PSAP-first-session ("PSAP-FS") had acceptable construct validity for group data, potentially expanding the settings in which the PSAP may be useful. One hundred male and female young adult subjects completed the PSAP-FS and additional behavioral measures of aggression, and provided information related to risk factors. The PSAP-FS correlated significantly with known risk factors of aggression. The PSAP-FS, which measures aggression in the present, correlated well with measures of recent aggression and less strongly with life history of aggression. The PSAP-FS had satisfactory validity properties for use where group-level data are of interest.

Language: en