Toward a Contextually Valid Assessment of Partner Violence: Development and Psycho-Sociometric Evaluation of the Gendered Violence in Partnerships Scale (GVPS)
This article presents a new measure for intimate partner violence (IPV), the Gendered Violence in Partnerships Scale (GVPS). The scale was developed in the Middle East with the aim to contribute to the global perspective on IPV by providing a contextual assessment tool for partner violence against w...
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| author | Katharina Goessmann Hawkar Ibrahim Hawkar Ibrahim Hawkar Ibrahim Laura B. Saupe Laura B. Saupe Frank Neuner Frank Neuner |
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| description | This article presents a new measure for intimate partner violence (IPV), the Gendered Violence in Partnerships Scale (GVPS). The scale was developed in the Middle East with the aim to contribute to the global perspective on IPV by providing a contextual assessment tool for partner violence against women in violent-torn settings embedded in a patriarchal social structure. In an effort to generate a scale including IPV items relevant to the women of the population, a pragmatic step-wise procedure, with focus group discussions and expert panels, was performed. The study’s analyses resulted in an 18-item checklist featuring four subscales of the GVPS that are based on a new typology of male-to-female partner violence presenting an alternative to the commonly used classification by type of abuse (i.e., physical, psychological, sexual acts). Therein, dominating behaviors, existential threats, impulsive aggression, and aggravated physical assault were identified as reflective of the lived realities of women in the war-torn Middle East, which was confirmed in factor analysis. The scale’s psychometric properties were assessed with data from 1,009 displaced women in Iraq, and associations with measures of psychopathology were determined. Implications for IPV assessment and prevention possibilities in humanitarian contexts and beyond are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e26a5a6112b142cbb41ca0ceeee67a292022-12-21T22:01:39ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-01-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.607671607671Toward a Contextually Valid Assessment of Partner Violence: Development and Psycho-Sociometric Evaluation of the Gendered Violence in Partnerships Scale (GVPS)Katharina Goessmann0Hawkar Ibrahim1Hawkar Ibrahim2Hawkar Ibrahim3Laura B. Saupe4Laura B. Saupe5Frank Neuner6Frank Neuner7Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, GermanyDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, GermanyDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Koya University, Koya, IraqVivo International, Konstanz, GermanyDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, GermanyDepartment of Clinical and Biological Psychology, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt, GermanyDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, GermanyVivo International, Konstanz, GermanyThis article presents a new measure for intimate partner violence (IPV), the Gendered Violence in Partnerships Scale (GVPS). The scale was developed in the Middle East with the aim to contribute to the global perspective on IPV by providing a contextual assessment tool for partner violence against women in violent-torn settings embedded in a patriarchal social structure. In an effort to generate a scale including IPV items relevant to the women of the population, a pragmatic step-wise procedure, with focus group discussions and expert panels, was performed. The study’s analyses resulted in an 18-item checklist featuring four subscales of the GVPS that are based on a new typology of male-to-female partner violence presenting an alternative to the commonly used classification by type of abuse (i.e., physical, psychological, sexual acts). Therein, dominating behaviors, existential threats, impulsive aggression, and aggravated physical assault were identified as reflective of the lived realities of women in the war-torn Middle East, which was confirmed in factor analysis. The scale’s psychometric properties were assessed with data from 1,009 displaced women in Iraq, and associations with measures of psychopathology were determined. Implications for IPV assessment and prevention possibilities in humanitarian contexts and beyond are discussed.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.607671/fullviolence against womenpartner violencescale developmentviolenceassessmentMiddle East |
| spellingShingle | Katharina Goessmann Hawkar Ibrahim Hawkar Ibrahim Hawkar Ibrahim Laura B. Saupe Laura B. Saupe Frank Neuner Frank Neuner Toward a Contextually Valid Assessment of Partner Violence: Development and Psycho-Sociometric Evaluation of the Gendered Violence in Partnerships Scale (GVPS) Frontiers in Psychology violence against women partner violence scale development violence assessment Middle East |
| title | Toward a Contextually Valid Assessment of Partner Violence: Development and Psycho-Sociometric Evaluation of the Gendered Violence in Partnerships Scale (GVPS) |
| title_full | Toward a Contextually Valid Assessment of Partner Violence: Development and Psycho-Sociometric Evaluation of the Gendered Violence in Partnerships Scale (GVPS) |
| title_fullStr | Toward a Contextually Valid Assessment of Partner Violence: Development and Psycho-Sociometric Evaluation of the Gendered Violence in Partnerships Scale (GVPS) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Toward a Contextually Valid Assessment of Partner Violence: Development and Psycho-Sociometric Evaluation of the Gendered Violence in Partnerships Scale (GVPS) |
| title_short | Toward a Contextually Valid Assessment of Partner Violence: Development and Psycho-Sociometric Evaluation of the Gendered Violence in Partnerships Scale (GVPS) |
| title_sort | toward a contextually valid assessment of partner violence development and psycho sociometric evaluation of the gendered violence in partnerships scale gvps |
| topic | violence against women partner violence scale development violence assessment Middle East |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.607671/full |
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