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Aggressive Behavior in Adolescents and Emerging Adults: The Psychometrics of th...
Vagos, Paula; Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.; Marsee, Monica A.; Rodrigues, Pedro F. S.The Brief Peer Conflict Scale (Brief-PCS) has been shown to be psychometrically suitable for assessing the combination of the forms and functions of aggressive behavior in adolescence. However, its validity, invariance, and utility across other age groups remains unexplored. The current study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brief-PCS in community samples of adolescents and emerging adults, a...
Forms and Functions of Aggression in Adolescents: Validation of the Portuguese ...
Vagos, Paula; Rijo, Daniel; Santos, Isabel M.; Marsee, Monica A.Aggression in adolescence may assume different forms and functions, and is often associated with maladjustment. To adequately assess aggression in adolescence, instruments need to evaluate both its forms and its functions, as is the case with the Peer Conflict Scale. This research presents and evaluates the Portuguese version of this instrument, and evaluates levels of aggression in an adolescent community samp...