title: Development and validation of the Child-to-Mother Violence Scale.
abstract: This article describes the development and tests the reliability and validity of a new survey instrument, the Child-to-Mother Violence Scale (CMVS). This instrument was devised specifically to measure data regarding the incidence, perpetrators, targets, experiences and influences on child-to-mother violence as the first phase of a larger study that investigated child-to-mother violence in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia.
authors.affiliation: University of Western Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Edenborough
authors.forename: Lesley M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Wilkes
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: Judy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mannix
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009517:New South Wales; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011594:Psychometrics; D014754:Violence