TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Intimate Partner Violence Victims’ Accuracy in Assessing their Risk of Re-abuse
JO  - Journal of family violence
A1  - Dutton, Mary Ann
A1  - Goodman, Lisa
A1  - Bell, Margret
A1  - Cattaneo, Lauren
SP  - 429
EP  - 440
VL  - 22
IS  - 6
N2  - Using four categories of accuracy (true positive, false positive, true negative, false negative), this study explored (1) how accurately intimate partner violence (IPV) victims are able to assess their risk of re-abuse; and (2) potential predictors of accuracy. Women seeking help for IPV (N = 246) rated the likelihood that they would experience physical re-abuse in the coming year and then reported 18 months later whether those risks had been realized. Victim assessments were more likely to be right than wrong, and were subject to neither a pessimistic nor optimistic bias. In the multivariate analysis, significant/marginally significant predictors of the accuracy categories were the history of violence from this and former partners, level of substance use, PTSD symptoms, and the recency of the violence. Among the more robust findings were the connection between level of stalking and true positives, and between substance use and false negatives. This study suggests that victim assessments have significant potential to inform practice, and deserve further exploration.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0885-7482
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-007-9097-8
ID  - ref1
ER  -