Revisiting the Issue of the Child Abuse Potential Inventory's Internal Consistency in Adolescent Samples

Wells, Brett M.; Crouch, Julie L.; Schubert, R; Irwin, Lauren M.; Risser, Heather J.; Skowronski, John J.

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2010.07.023

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“…The CAPI was found to have adequate psychometric properties with diverse populations, including adolescent parents. 27,28 Reliability analysis with this group of adolescent parents resulted in an adequate level of internal consistency (a = 0.79).…”

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confidence: 93%

Young Parenthood Program: Supporting Positive Paternal Engagement Through Coparenting Counseling

Florsheim

Burrow-Sanchez²,

Minami³

et al. 2012

Am J Public Health

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confidence: 93%

Young Parenthood Program: Supporting Positive Paternal Engagement Through Coparenting Counseling

Florsheim

Burrow-Sanchez²,

Minami³

et al. 2012

Am J Public Health

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“…Sixty‐eight of these participants could not be reliably classified with respect to CPA risk status because of evidence of response distortion on the Child Abuse Potential (CAP) Inventory (9 randomly responded, 59 faked good). Exclusion for these reasons, and the exclusion rate, is typical of research using the CAP Inventory to establish CPA risk groups (e.g., Milner, , , ; Wells et al, ). Moreover, 11 additional participants were excluded from analyses because they failed to provide valid data for at least one positive memory or one negative memory.…”

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Fading of Affect Associated with Negative Child‐Related Memories Varies by Parental Child Abuse Potential

Skowronski

Crouch

Coley

et al. 2016

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Positive memories tend to hold their affective intensity across time better than negative memories, a phenomenon referred to as the fading affect bias (FAB). An initial study explored this bias in the context of parents' affective responses to memories involving their children. Specifically, parents (N = 90 for Study 1) were asked to recall three positive events and three negative events involving their children. Next, parents rated how positively or negatively they felt when each event occurred and at recall. Results revealed that parents at high risk of physical child abuse showed a smaller FAB than low-risk parents. The smaller FAB effect observed among high-risk parents occurred largely because affect associated with negative child-related events faded minimally over time. This risk moderation effect did not emerge in a second study in which parents (N = 90 for Study 2) recalled general events that were not limited to events involving children.

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“…This exclusion rate, and exclusion for these reasons, is typical of research using the CAP Inventory to establish CPA risk groups (e.g., Milner, 1986Milner, , 1994Milner, , 2003Wells et al, 2011). The remaining 165 participants were classified as either low CPA risk (n = 90) or high CPA risk (n = 75) based on their CAP abuse risk scores.…”

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Do High-Risk Parents Use More Aggression During Competitive Play With Children?

Crouch

Skowronski

Davila

et al. 2020

J Interpers Violence

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The present study examined the extent to which the aggressive tendencies of parents at risk for perpetrating child physical abuse (CPA) generalize to situations other than discipline-related encounters (e.g., a competitive gaming interaction). Participants included parents who were either low ( n = 90) or high ( n = 75) risk for CPA. Parents were led to believe that they were playing a game against a child opponent with whom they exchanged sound blasts of varying intensities. Parental sound blast selections served as a proxy for aggressive behavior. Parents were randomly assigned to high or low loss conditions. The fictitious child opponent’s responses were pre-programed so that sound blasts received by parents became louder (i.e., more provocative) over time. As predicted, high CPA risk parents exhibited higher levels of aggression than low CPA risk parents. Moreover, high-risk parents reported having higher levels of aggressive motives during the game than low-risk parents; and aggressive motives explained the link between parental CPA risk and parents’ aggressive behavior. With one exception, higher levels of child provocation during the game prompted parents to send higher levels of sound blasts. The exception to this pattern occurred among low-risk parents who experienced high rates of loss during the game. Specifically, low-risk parents in the high loss condition continued to send low levels of sound blasts even as their child opponent became more provocative. Aggressive motives (and the ability to change motives as situations change) may help explain differences in aggressive tendencies evinced by parents with varying levels of CPA risk.

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Revisiting the Issue of the Child Abuse Potential Inventory's Internal Consistency in Adolescent Samples

Cited by 10 publications

References 17 publications

Young Parenthood Program: Supporting Positive Paternal Engagement Through Coparenting Counseling

Young Parenthood Program: Supporting Positive Paternal Engagement Through Coparenting Counseling

Fading of Affect Associated with Negative Child‐Related Memories Varies by Parental Child Abuse Potential

Do High-Risk Parents Use More Aggression During Competitive Play With Children?

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