The development of a measure of psychological maltreatment of women by their male partners.
This study describes the initial development of a scale of measurement of psychological maltreatment of women by their male partners. The initial version of the scale was administered to 407 men and 207 women at intake into a domestic violence program. All 58 items of the scale were endorsed by a large enough number of subjects to warrant inclusion in the final instrument. Factor analysis revealed a similar factor structure for the men and women, with dominance-isolation and emotional-verbal abuse factors emerging from the analysis. Intracouple reliability for each item of the scale was examined for the subset of men and women who were cohabiting couples (n = 28). Unsurprisingly, the agreement of men's and women's reports was low, though the scores on the domination-isolation subscale were significantly correlated.
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University of Illinois, Jane Addams College of Social Work, Chicago 60680.
D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010556:Personality Tests; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011594:Psychometrics; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D014754:Violence