Factor similarity of the Conflict Tactics Scales across samples, spouses, and sites: Issues and implications

Barling, Julian; O’Leary, K. Daniel; Jouriles, Ernest N.; Vivian, Dina; MacEwen, Karyl E.

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“…These findings partially support research that makes distinctions between more severe and less severe acts of violence in marital relationships (Barling et al 1987;Hornung et al 1981;Pan et al 1994) in that they indicate explicit dimensions underlying acts of violence used against family members. More pertinently however, these results lend empirical support to research that has distinguished acts of sibling-perpetrated violence in terms of severity (e.g., Eriksen & Jensen, 2009).…”

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Measurement of Sibling Violence

Khan¹,

Cooke

2012

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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The measurement of violence is a major challenge in aggression research. Because of the heterogeneous nature of violent behavior, problems arise when applying blanket measures to inherently distinct subtypes of aggression. Incidents of intersibling violence (ISV) exacerbate these problems because siblinghood represents a unique offender–victim situation. This research explored whether an existing two-factor model for severe violence found in a sample of 250 adult offenders (age M = 26.8, SD = 5.9) could be generalized to deliberate severe ISV in a sample of 111 young offenders (age M = 14.83, SD = 1.45). Exploratory factor analysis revealed a two-factor model encompassing severe ISV perpetration with weapon use (Factor 1) and severe ISV perpetration without weapon use (Factor 2). The results provide strong empirical support for the two-factor model of violence severity previously established with adult offenders. This analysis demonstrates construct validity of the severity measures among the different types of offenders studied and provides support for generalization across populations.

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Measurement of Sibling Violence

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Cooke

2012

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…Even if this finding agrees with several previous reports 16,17,18,22,23,28,34,35,36 , it has the strength of being based on a full information factor analysis. Note that this result is central to what follows, since a single dimensionality of a scale being scrutinized is essential to render item response theory interpretable 24 .…”

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Assessing the physical violence component of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales when used in heterosexual couples: an item response theory analysis

2007

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Although there are psychometric evaluations of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2) when applied to heterosexual relationships, none has used item response theory (IRT). IntroductionThe increase in family violence has generated a growing body of research on the development of measurement tools, including the class of instruments known as Conflict Tactics Scales 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 . These are based on 'conflict theory' and aim to identify strategies used by individuals to solve disagreements and impasses 8,9 . The first instrument in the series (CTS1) was proposed in the late 1970s and sought to address any kind of violent relationship 10 . Despite its encouraging evaluations over the years and successful use in at least 20 countries 3,11,12,13,14,15 , a more refined instrument was subsequently developed for dealing exclusively with intimate partner violence. The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2) was presented in 1996 and consists of 39 items forming five scales, namely negotiation (6 items), psychological aggression (8 items), physical violence (12 items), sexual coercion (7 items), and injury (6 items) 13 .The CTS2 has been studied since its release. Results show acceptable reliability, validity, and a factor structure in tune with the underlying theory 13,16,17,18,19 . However, when focusing on intimate partner violence in heterosexual couples, such psychometric evaluations have exclusively used classical test theory 20 . In order to address this gap, the aim of the present paper is to provide a more in-depth item analysis than is possible with traditional psychometric procedures.ARTIGO ARTICLE Reichenheim ME et al. 54

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“…In its standard wording and usage the CTS measures violence between sexual partners and a number of studies have established no sex differences in responding [Archer and Ray, 1989;Barling et al, 1987;Straus et al, 1980;Straus and Gelles, 19901. Given the revised wording designed to pick up all aggressive incidents regardless of target over the proceeding year, we expected to find significant sex differences.…”

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Sex and social representations of aggression: A communal-agentic analysis

1993

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Previous research [Campbell and Muncer: Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 17: 489–512, 1987; Campbell et al.: Aggressive Behavior 18: 95–108, 1992] suggests that men and women hold different social representations or implicit theories of their own aggression. Men view it is an instrumental act (a means of obtaining and exercising power to gain social rewards), while women view it an expressive act (a cathartic discharge of anger). In the present study, communal/agentic personality styles and gender identity are examined as possible mediators of the relation between sex and Expaag–a psychometric measure of adherence to an expressive representation of aggression. In addition a measure of self‐reported aggression is included. The highest correlation appeared between sex and Expaag. Gender identity and interpersonal style made no significant improvement in explained variance in a multiple regression analysis after sex had been entered. An instrumental social representation of aggression was significantly and positively correlated with number of reported aggressive acts. © 1993 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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Factor similarity of the Conflict Tactics Scales across samples, spouses, and sites: Issues and implications

Cited by 129 publications

References 34 publications

Measurement of Sibling Violence

Measurement of Sibling Violence

Assessing the physical violence component of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales when used in heterosexual couples: an item response theory analysis

Sex and social representations of aggression: A communal-agentic analysis

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