Normative Beliefs About Aggression
The Normative Beliefs About Aggression (NOBAG) was originally developed by Nancy Guerra (U. of Illinois, Chicago) and L. Rowell Huesmann (U. of Michigan) as a measure for assessing a child's beliefs about the acceptability of specific aggressive behaviors in specific contexts. The initial 35 items varied along the dimensions of severity of provocation, severity of response, gender of provoker, and gender of responder. Piloting of the scale suggested revisions of the scale which resulted in the 20-item scale
Abstract: Guerra and Huesmann (1992) developed the Normative Beliefs about Aggression measure (NOBAG) as a measure for assessing a child's beliefs about the acceptability of specific aggressive behaviors in specific contexts. The 20 items vary along the dimensions of severity of provocation, severity of response, gender of provoker, and gender of responder. The first eight items are brief scenarios where a child (A) is verbally aggressive to another child (B); these scenarios vary by the gender of the children involved (same sex and opposite sex). Following each of these scenarios, the interviewer first asks the respondent if it is wrong or okay for B to respond with verbal aggression (screaming) toward A and then asks the respondent if it is wrong or okay for B to respond with physical aggression (hitting). This measure is first scored by rescoring each item in order to correspond with the scoring system used by Guerra and Huesmann. The rescoring occurs as follows:
Original Score | New Score |
0 = Perfectly OK | 4 = Perfectly OK |
1 = Sort of OK | 3 = Sort of OK |
2 = Sort of Wrong | 2 = Sort of Wrong |
3 = Really Wrong | 1 = Really Wrong |
Who Completed this Measure?: select one
Cohort 1 - Administrative History
- Year 04 | grade 3 | age 9
- Year 05 | grade 4 | age 10
- Year 06 | grade 5 | age 11
Cohort 2 - Administrative History
- Year 04 | grade 3 | age 9
- Year 05 | grade 4 | age 10
- Year 06 | grade 5 | age 11
Cohort 3 - Administrative History
- Year 04 | grade 3 | age 9
- Year 05 | grade 4 | age 10
- Year 06 | grade 5 | age 11
Technical Reports:
Raw Dataset Name: CyH
Scored Dataset Name: NBAySCc
Keywords:
Aggressive Behavior, Anger, Gender, Verbal Aggression
Is this Measure Available for Public Use?: No
Obtain Measure:
L. Rowell Huesmann
Research Center for Group Dynamics
Institute for Social Research
PO Box 1248
426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248
Phone: (734) 764-8385
Fax: (734) 763-1202
Email: huesmann@umich.edu