Sentence examples for verbal aggressive from inspiring English sources
Table 2 shows that the items concerning relational verbal aggressive behavior were more easily endorsed by girls, while physical aggressive behavior was more easily endorsed by boys.
Even though this item represents a type of verbally and relationally aggressive behavior, it represents a more intense and confrontational (direct) behavior if compared to the items that assess verbal aggressive behavior.
This study used only the first scale (Aggressive Behaviors Scale - ABS) consisting of five items assessing the physical and verbal aggressive behaviors of the child, as well as three control items, disregarded for the score.
Major findings were: (1) Parental divorce did not correlate with increases in physical or verbal aggressive acts, but did correlate with significant increases in angry feelings and hostile thoughts (2) Higher levels of self-control and social support were found to mitigate possible adverse effects of parental divorce on adolescents' aggression.
They found that the sum score was predictive for physical and verbal aggressive infractions.
The 29 items are divided in four subgroups: physical aggressive, physical non-aggressive, verbal aggressive, non-verbal non-aggressive.
The authors concluded that the PCL-R correlated moderately with verbal aggression, non-aggressive offenses, and 'any disciplinary offense', but not with physically aggressive offenses.
The scale has four categories of aggressive behavior (verbal aggression, aggression against property, auto-aggression, and physical aggression) [ 57].
The MOAS consists of four categories of aggressive behaviour: verbal aggression, physical violence against objects, physical aggression against oneself, and physical violence against other people.
The most frequent and the most worrisome aggressive behaviours are those that lead to verbal aggression.
Moreover Foley et al [ 8] used the MOAS, but a different classification criteria of aggressive behavior was applied: an individual was considered non-aggressive even when it scored greater than zero on the subscale for verbal aggression.
