Citation

Strauchler O, McCloskey K, Malloy K, Sitaker M, Grigsby N, Gillig P. J. Fam. Violence 2004; 19(6): 339-346.

Affiliation

Univ of Hartford Graduate Inst of Professional Psychology, Hartford, CT; Ellis Human Development Inst, Wright State Univ of Professional Psychology, Dayton, OH; Washington State Department of Health, Olympia, WA; Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violenc

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10896-004-0679-4

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper describes two related studies. Study 1 is a literature review of existing adult partner domestic violence assessment scales. Results of the review revealed that the scales varied on the available amount of empirical evidence for validity and reliability. More importantly, results showed that the content of the scales focused most heavily on the physical abuse aspects of domestic violence. Study 2 is a factor analysis performed on the results of 64 items taken from the Artemis Intake Questionnaire, a clinically relevant tool constructed by treatment providers used in working with the victims of domestic violence. Results indicate that reported humiliation and blame of the victim accounted for the largest amount of variance, followed by controlling the victim, and then physical violence. Results of this factor analysis suggest that greater emphasis must be put on factors other than physical violence in the construction of future domestic violence scales.