Citation

Clift RJW, Thomas LA, Dutton DG. J. Fam. Violence 2005; 20(4): 231-234.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, BC; Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10896-005-5986-x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The Propensity for Abusiveness Scale (PAS; Dutton [1995a] J. Fam. Violence 10[2]: 203?221) has been shown to correlate with both physical and psychological abuse in a variety of samples including gay men, assaultive males, and male and female college students (Clift, 2001; Dutton et al., 2001). For the current study, 27 male and 37 female university students completed the PAS during the 1998?1999 and the 2000?2001 school years. A 2-year test?retest reliability coefficient of r = .851 was found for women and a reliability coefficient of r = .629 was found for men. The combined sample had a reliability coefficient of r = .774. Moderate test?retest reliability coefficients were also found for each of the subscales.