Question

Aggression can be measured in many different ways. Aggressioncould be operationally defined as: Children were scored on their level of physical aggression on the playground. After viewing a 15-minutes video, each child was marked as exhibiting low (zero to 1 acts of aggression), medium (2 to 4 acts of aggression), or high (5 to 10 acts of aggression) levels of aggression. OR We could ask people if they admit to having engaged in a physically violent act in the past week. Write an different operational definition for aggression. Be sure to specifically indicate exactly how you would measure this variable.Indicate your proposed measurement (Categorical / Continuous) and type of measure (Behavioral, Physiological, Self-Report.)

Answer 1

An operational definition of aggression:

A group of peers are allowed to play and have fun, for about 30mins. This will help them to be in the same state of mind. After the 30mins time, each person's aggression level was measured, as it's assumed that their are all in the same state of mind. The measurement was done by using abusive words on them to record how their will behave. Those that did not react or has a very mild reaction to it were recorded to have zero to 1 level of aggression, which is known as low aggression level. Those that reacted to the abuse by abusing back or forbidden the abuse, without shouting or being harsh were recorded to have 2 to 4 level of aggression, which is known as medium aggression level. While those that reacted in a harsh manner by shouting and abusing back in a manner that shows their are ready to fight, were recorded to have 5 to 10 level of aggression, which is known as high level of aggression.

The measurement used in this example is Categorical and the type of measure been used called Behavioral measure.