hostility {plfm}R Documentation

self-reported hostile behavior in frustrating situations

Description

The data consist of the judgments of 316 first-year psychology students who indicated on a three point scale the extent to which they would display each of 4 hostile behaviors in each of 14 frustrating situations (0= you do not display this response in this situation, 1= you display this response to a limited extent in this situation, 2= you display this response to a strong extent in this situation).

Usage

data(hostility)

Format

The data consist of a list of 6 objects:

  1. data: A 316 X 14 X 4 array of dichotomized judgements (0 versus 1 or 2). The observation in cell (i,j,k) equals 1 if person i would display behavior k in situation j to a limited or strong extent and 0 if person i would not display behavior k in situation j.

  2. freq1: A 14 X 4 matrix of frequencies. The frequency in cell (j,k) indicates the number of respondents who indicate that they would display behavior k in situation j.

  3. freqtot: A 14 X 4 matrix of frequencies. The frequency in cell (j,k) indicates the total number of respondents who judged the situation-response pair (j,k).

  4. situation: A vector with descriptions of the situations.

  5. rowlabels: A vector of labels for the situations.

  6. columnlabels: A vector of labels for the anger-related behaviors.

Source

Vansteelandt, K. (1999). A formal model for the competency-demand hypothesis. European Journal of Personality, 13, 429-442.

References

Vansteelandt, K. and Van Mechelen, I. (1998). Individual differences in situation-behavior profiles: A triple typology model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 751-765.


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