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Perpetrator Workplace Aggression: Development of a Perpetrator Aggression Scale (PAS)

Islam, Md Rashedul
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9977-7826
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright165003871228944

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2022, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Wright State University, Human Factors and Industrial/Organizational Psychology PhD.
Perpetrator workplace aggression has always been considered as a uni-dimensional construct from the uni-dimensional perspective. The most popular and widely used scale, interpersonal deviance scale (IDS; Bennett & Robinson, 2000), to assess perpetrator workplace aggression has only seven items (i.e., seven content areas), which lacks a high level of content-related and construct-related validity. Recently, researchers have suggested that perpetrator workplace aggression may be a construct with a general factor at the top (Sackett & DeVore, 2001); however, this general factor can be less clear for a more complex model (Marcus et al., 2016). Using three samples (N = 271, 337, & 264), this research found that perpetrator workplace aggression was also a uni-dimensional construct from the multi-dimensional perspective, the general factor was very clear for a complex model, and developed a new scale with a higher level of content-related (i.e., 24 different content areas of perpetrator workplace aggression) and construct-related validity (by developing a large nomological network). In addition to a higher level of content-related and construct-related validity, the new scale showed a higher level of internal consistency and substantive validity. Hence, I recommend that researchers and practitioners use this new scale in future when assessing perpetrator workplace aggression.
Nathan A. Bowling, Ph.D. (Advisor)
David M. LaHuis, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Corey E. Miller, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Brian D. Lyons, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
142 p.
Occupational Psychology; Organizational Behavior; Psychology
perpetrator workplace aggression; uni-dimensionality; general factor; content-related validity; construct-related validity

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  • Islam, M. R. (2022). Perpetrator Workplace Aggression: Development of a Perpetrator Aggression Scale (PAS) [Doctoral dissertation, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright165003871228944

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Islam, Md Rashedul. Perpetrator Workplace Aggression: Development of a Perpetrator Aggression Scale (PAS). 2022. Wright State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright165003871228944.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Islam, Md Rashedul. "Perpetrator Workplace Aggression: Development of a Perpetrator Aggression Scale (PAS)." Doctoral dissertation, Wright State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright165003871228944

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