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Citation

Allen CT, Swan SC, Maas CD, Barber S. J. Interpers. Violence 2015; 30(13): 2326-2343.

Affiliation

South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Columbia, SC, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260514552450

PMID

25304668

Abstract

Court-mandated domestic violence (DV) treatment programs across the country have seen a marked increase in female clients. These programs use a variety of measurement tools to assess the needs of their clients. Increased numbers of women in treatment for DV reflect a need to address the measurement of intimate partner violence (IPV) for both males and females. Unfortunately, the reliability and validity of many of measures used to assess IPV and related constructs for women remains unknown. The current study focuses on a particular measure, the Propensity for Abusiveness Scale (PAS). The PAS is not a measure of abusive behavior per se; rather, it assesses risk factors for abuse, including affective lability, anger expression, trauma symptoms, and harsh parenting experienced by the respondent. Specifically, the current study compares the factor structure and the measurement properties of the PAS for males and females in a sample of 885 (647 female, 238 male) participants in a DV treatment program.

FINDINGS indicate that the PAS demonstrated configural, metric, and scalar invariance between the female and male samples. These results suggest that it is appropriate for researchers and clinicians to make comparisons between women and men based on PAS factor scores.


Language: en

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