2. General Indicator: Subject's feelings about partner's behavior

    2.1 Subject's fear of partner's actions or behavior

    2.1.1 Afraid of making partner angry

    2.1.2 Afraid of ending the relationship for fear of what partner will do

    2.1.3 Fear that partner will inflict personal injury

    2.1.4 Fear that partner will destroy or deface subject's property

    2.2 Subject's level of comfort with partner's actions or behavior

    2.2.1 Expresses concern about his/her lack of privacy

    2.2.2 Apologizes to others about his/her partner's behavior

    2.2.3 Feels pressure to perform sexual acts despite whether or not he/she wants to do so

    2.2.4 Subject is concerned about his/her finances

    2.2.5 Subject is uncomfortable with the level of interference that his/her partner displays with his/her desire to see friends or family

    2.2.6 Subject is uncomfortable with partner's lack of encouragement for pursuit of subject's interest outside of the relationship

    2.2.7 Unhappy with level of support that partner displays towards subject academic or professional pursuits

    2.2.8 Subject is concerned about his/her partner's dominant power in the relationship

    2.3 Subject's attribution of causes of partner's actions or behavior

    2.3.1 Subject blames himself/herself for partner's actions or behavior

    2.3.2 Attributes partner's actions or behavior to other people outside of the relationship

    2.3.3 Attributes partner's actions or behaviors to partner's substance use

    2.3.4 Attributes partner's actions or behaviors to partner's issues or problems

Scoring

Self-scored by subject or by subject in conjunction with a counselor

Questions 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 are scored as follows:

 

Questions 2, 5 and 11 are scored as follows:

 

Questions 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20 and 22 are scored as follows:

 

Questions 15, 17, 21 and 23 are scored as follows:

 

Sources

Table 1. Examples of Abusive Behavior from : Eisenstat (1999): New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 341(12), pp. 886-892

Predictors of Domestic Violence, retrieved from national Coalition Against Domestic Violence web site, http://www.ncadv.org/problem/predictors.htm, May 6, 2002.

Wolfe D.A., Scott K., Reitzel-Jaffe D., Wekerle C., Grasely C., Straatman A-L (2001). Development and Validation of the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory. Psychological Assessment, 13(2); pp. 277-293.

Burge S.K. (1998). How do you define abuse? Family Medicine, 7(1); pp. 31-32.

Sharpe D., Taylor J.K. (1999). An examination of variables from a social-developmental model to explain physical and psychological dating violence. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, 31(3); pp. 165-175.

 

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