Factorial analysis and invariance by sex and age of the Anger Rumination Scale ARS Spanish version

Abstract

La rumiación ira es pensamiento perseverativo sobre un evento personalmente significativo ocurrido a la persona o las demás que conlleva a la ira y se constituye como factor de riesgo para la agresión. El objetivo fue realizar un análisis factorial confirmatorio e invarianza por sexo y edades de la Anger Rumination Scale [ARS]. Se conformó una muestra no probabilística de 640 personas con entre 18 y 63 años (M = 31.07, SD = 11.27), agrupadas por sexos (252 hombres, 378 mujeres) y edades (278 menores de 25 años, 352 mayores de 25 años). Los instrumentos fueron el ARS y el cuestionario de agresión reactiva y proactiva RPQ. Se encontró que el ARS presenta un ajuste favorable en un modelo de cuatro factores correlacionados con covarianzas residuales. A su vez, resultó invariante entre sexos y edades luego de imponer restricciones progresivas en el modelo confirmado, y presentó correlaciones significativas con la agresión reactiva y proactiva como evidencias de la validez de criterio predictivo. Se concluyó que el ARS presenta indicadores adecuados de fiabilidad y validez para ser usado en el contexto colombiano. Anger rumination is perseverative thinking about a personally significant event that occurred to the person or others that leads to anger and constitutes a risk factor for aggression. The aim was to perform a confirmatory factor analysis and invariance by sex and age of the Anger Rumination Scale [ARS]. A non-probabilistic sample of 640 people between 18 and 63 years old (M = 31.07, SD = 11.27), grouped by sex (252 men, 378 women) and ages (278 under 25 years old, 352 over 25 years old) was formed. The instruments were the ARS and the RPQ reactive and proactive aggression questionnaire. It was found that the ARS presents a favorable fit in a four-factor model correlated with residual covariances. In turn, it was invariant between sexes and ages after imposing progressive restrictions on the confirmed model and presented significant correlations with reactive and proactive aggression as evidence of the validity of predictive criteria. It was concluded that the ARS presents adequate indicators of reliability and validity to be used in the Colombian context.

Structural validity and psychometric properties of the Anger Rumination Scale: an analysis of invariance by gender, age and sample type in a community and a clinical sample

“…The analyses of measurement invariance by gender, age group (≤ 25 and ≥ 25 years) and sample type (community vs. clinical sample) showed a total con gural, metric and strict invariance for gender and age group that was consistent with a previous study of the ARS with four factors (Toro et al, 2020) and for the community vs. clinical sample. However, the three-factor structure of this study showed the greatest parsimony and was the most consistent and feasible one from a conceptual and methodological point of view.…”

“…This structure has been replicated in several countries including Brazil, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, France, Spain, Australia-Spain, Turkey, Iran, and Colombia (Besharat, 2011 The studies reviewed suggest that the ARS has good structural validity. However, we consider that those studies have some shortcomings, in particular: 1) Although most studies have focused on the relationship between anger rumination and aggression (Magán et al, 2016;Ortega-Andrade et al, 2017;Ramos-Cejudo et al, 2017;Toro et al, 2020), few studies have associated anger rumination with anxiety and depression symptoms, at least at the predictive level. 2) Very few studies included an analysis of factorial invariance by gender, age group and with a community sample vs. a clinical sample.…”

Bullying and cyberbullying, what do they have in common and what not? A latent class analysis

“…Anger rumination was measured using the Anger Rumination Scale (Sukhodolsky et al, 2001; validated in Spanish by Toro et al, 2020), composed of 19 Likert-type items on a scale of 1-4 (1 = Hardly ever; 4 = Nearly always), to assess the tendency to think about situations that lead to anger, to remember past episodes of anger and to dwell on the causes and consequences of episodes of anger. Example item: I dwell on my past experiences of anger.…”

Investigating the Multidimensionality and Psychometric Properties of the Children’s Anger Rumination Scale (CARS): A Bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling Framework

“…The dimensionality of the ARS has been examined in different cross-cultural settings: Iran (Besharat, 2011), Hong Kong, and Great Britain (Maxwell, 2004; Maxwell et al, 2005), Australia and Spain (Ramos-Cejudo et al, 2017), Colombia (Toro et al, 2020), France (Reynes et al, 2013), Turkey (Satici, 2014), Mexico (Ortega-Andrade et al, 2017), and Spain (Uceda et al, 2016). All but one studies (Maxwell, 2004) have confirmed the hypothesized four-factor structure of the inventory proposed by Sukhodolsky et al (2001).…”