Citation

Ogle RL, Noel NE, Maisto SA. Violence Against Women 2009; 15(7): 799-809.

Affiliation

University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801209334444

PMID

19448165

Abstract

The Acceptance of Interpersonal Violence Scale (AIV) is a self-report inventory assessing beliefs about violence toward women. This study's purpose was to test the multidimensionality of the AIV. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted on half a sample of 772 male participants and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) on the other half. EFA indicated a two-factor solution. Factors were labeled Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence. The CFA showed this model provided a good fit and was superior to the original one-factor model. Potential problems when using the single sum score and the applicability of the derived factor structure to violence research are discussed.

Language: en