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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Psychiatr Res. 2009 Oct 12;44(6):393–404. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2009.09.005

Table 1.

Standardized Factor Loadings of the Aggression Constructs and Goodness of Fit Indices.

Item # Content
Peer-directed Proactive Relational Aggression Items
B My friends know that I will think less of them if they do not do what I want them to do. .71
D When I want something from a friend of mine, I act “cold” or indifferent towards them until I get what I want. .80
J I have threatened to share private information about my friends with other people in order to get them to comply with my wishes. .77
P I have intentionally ignored a person until they gave me my way about something. .80
Peer-directed Reactive Relational Aggression Items
C When I am not invited to do something with a group of people, I will exclude those people from future activities. .68
F When I have been angry at, or jealous of someone, I have tried to damage that person’s reputation by gossiping about him or her or by passing on negative information about him/her to other people. .68
G When someone does something that makes me angry, I try to embarrass that person or make them look stupid in front of his/her friends .72
I When I am mad at a person, I try to make sure she/he is excluded from group activities (going to the movies or to a bar). .74
L I have spread rumors about a person just to be mean. .70
Relational Aggression in Romantic Relationships Items
A I have threatened to break up with a romantic partner in order to get him/her to do what I wanted. .69
E I have tried to make my romantic partner jealous when mad at him/her. .81
K I have cheated on my romantic partner because I was angry at him/her. .60
M I have given my romantic partner the silent treatment when my feelings were hurt in some way by him or her. .58
O If my romantic partner makes me mad, I will flirt with another person in front of him/her. .76

Note. Goodness of Fit: χ2 = 322.68, df = 53, p < .0001, TLI = .97, CFI = .95, RMSEA = .06