AGDIA

Scoring+

The following main variables are scored:

• Triggering
  • Learning theory: The individual’s readiness to be aggressive is regarded as rooted in learned behavior.
  • Drive theory: The individual’s readiness to be aggressive is regarded as rooted in innate biological drives.
• Manifestation
  • Physiological: Subjective awareness of a physiological arousal pattern (e.g. racing heartbeat) underlying the act of aggression.
  • Emotional: Anger and rage towards an object, oneself or another person.
  • Behavioral: Directly observable behavior (e.g. verbal abuse).
  • Cognitive: Ruminating and looking for the causes of aggression.
• Coping
  • Constructive: Using active and positive approaches (e.g. relaxation).
  • Destructive: Subjective conviction that one’s own resources are insufficient to cope with the challenges (negative approaches; e.g. drugs).
• Stabilization
  • External: Persistent maintenance of aggression as a result of the increased attention from the social environment (morbid gain).
  • Internal: Individual processes (e.g. self-talk or imagining future events) cause the aggression to be maintained.
• The level of aggressive manifestation and the level of existing coping strategies: the dominant factors are evaluated in quantitative terms.