Reinisch J M, Sanders S A
J Pers Soc Psychol. 1986 May;50(5):1045-9. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.50.5.1045.
Male (n = 289) and female (n = 268) college students were administered the Leifer-Roberts Response Hierarchy (Reinisch Revision) to evaluate the utility of this measure in reflecting sex differences in self-described potential for aggressive response. The Response Hierarchy provides a retrospective estimate of where physical and verbal aggression reside in an individual's hierarchy of possible behavioral responses to hypothetical conflict situations in adolescence. A score is obtained for: (a) physical aggression, (b) verbal aggression, (c) nonaggressive coping, and (d) withdrawal. When asked to respond as they would have or did at age 13 years, verbal aggression was the most frequent response with no significant sex difference in mean scores. Men selected physical aggression significantly more often than women (p less than .001). Using the binomial effect size display (BESD) to illustrate the magnitude of the sex difference, 69% of the men would be classified as physically aggressive (above the median), whereas only 31% of the women would be so classified. It was concluded that the Response Hierarchy consistently demonstrates sex differences among college students in retrospectively reported preference for choosing physical aggression versus other coping strategies as a response to hypothetical interpersonal conflict situations of adolescence.
对289名男大学生和268名女大学生进行了莱弗-罗伯茨反应层次量表（赖尼施修订版）测试，以评估该量表在反映自我描述的攻击性反应潜能方面的性别差异。反应层次量表提供了一个回顾性估计，即身体攻击和言语攻击在个体对青少年时期假设冲突情境的可能行为反应层次结构中的位置。通过以下方面获得分数：（a）身体攻击，（b）言语攻击，（c）非攻击性应对，以及（d）退缩。当被要求按照13岁时的反应方式或实际反应进行回答时，言语攻击是最常见的反应，平均得分无显著性别差异。男性选择身体攻击的频率显著高于女性（p<0.001）。使用二项效应量展示（BESD）来说明性别差异的大小，69%的男性会被归类为身体攻击性较强（高于中位数），而只有31%的女性会被如此归类。研究得出结论，反应层次量表始终显示出大学生在回顾性报告中对选择身体攻击而非其他应对策略来应对青少年时期假设的人际冲突情境存在性别差异。
