The development and validation of an explicit justification of aggression scale
(2012)
The development and validation of an explicit justification of aggression scale.
In:
Proceedings of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.
Academy of Management Proceedings
(1).
Academy of Management, Briar Cliff Manor NY.
The current work outlines the development and validation of a new self-report measure that assesses the cognitive biases of aggressive individuals (using seven samples, Total N = 3,638). The scale is reliable with a hierarchical 6-factor structure, and displays convergent and discriminant validity. Criterion-related validity studies indicate: incremental effects over social desirable responding bias and related aggression measures; meaningful relationships with core job attitudes, workplace behaviors, and well-being; mediating effects between abusive supervision and counterproductive work behaviors; and meaningful relationships with multi-wave self-report counterproductive work behaviors and other-report general counterproductive behaviors. Collectively these results provide strong initial support for the newly developed measure.