Preliminary evaluation of an analog procedure to assess acceptability of intimate partner violence against women: the Partner Violence Acceptability Movie Task

Abstract

Acceptability of partner violence against women is a risk factor linked to its perpetration, and to public, professionals’ and victims’ responses to this behavior. Research on the acceptability of violence in intimate partner relationships is, however, limited by reliance solely on self-reports that often provide distorted or socially desirable accounts that may misrepresent respondents’ attitudes. This study presents data on the development and initial validation of a new analog task assessing respondents’ acceptability of physical violence toward women in intimate relationships: the Partner Violence Acceptability Movie Task (PVAM). This new analog task is intended to provide a more implicit measure of the acceptability of partner violence against women. For this analog task, clips were extracted from commercially available films (90-s segments) portraying partner violence. Two independent samples were used to develop and evaluate the PVAM: a sample of 245 undergraduate students and a sample of 94 male intimate partner violence offenders. This new analog task demonstrated acceptable internal consistency. Results also indicated adequate construct validity. Both perpetrators and undergraduates scoring high in the PVAM also scored higher in self-reported justifications of partner abuse. Perpetrators of partner violence scored significantly higher in acceptability of partner violence than the undergraduate sample (both male and female students), and male students scored higher than females. These preliminary results suggest that the PVAM may be a promising tool to assess the acceptability of violence in intimate partner relationships, highlighting the need to consider alternatives to self-report to evaluate potential beliefs about partner violence.

Psychometric Properties of the Inventory of Beliefs about Intimate Partner Violence (IBIPV)

“…Moreover, the correlations among the subscales followed the pattern found in previous research (e.g. Gracia et al, 2015); JPV was positively related to VRV and negatively related to ARV, whilst VRV and ARV were negatively correlated.…”

“…Nevertheless, it is worth noting that the correlations between constructs were higher for men than for women. This is not surprising as research has shown that women tend to express stronger disapproval of wife beating than men (Gracia et al, 2015;Sakalli, 2001;Valor-Segura et al, 2011) and also attribute less blame to the victim and more to the perpetrator (Strömwall, Landström, & Alfredsson, 2014) .…”

“…'A women is often verbally abused and humiliated by her partner') (Gracia et al, 2009). Several studies have used only certain subscales of the IBWB (Gracia, Rodriguez, & Lila, 2015).…”

Testosterone and attention deficits as possible mechanisms underlying impaired emotion recognition in intimate partner violence perpetrators

“…In line with these results, previous studies have demonstrated that violent offenders show significant deficits in attentional set shifting or larger attention switch costs in comparison with non-violent population (Bergvall, Wessely, Forsman, & Hansen, 2001). In fact, this attention deficit might explain not only the impaired emotion decoding process but also the executive domain deficits defined as a worse performance in tests like the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, which has been previously reported in IPV perpetrators (Gracia et al, 2015;Romero-Martínez, Lila, Catalá-Miñana et al, 2013;Romero-Martínez, Lila, Sariñana-González et al, 2013;. Nonetheless, it is important to note that in our research we analyzed attention deficits with self-reports, although these subscales have been employed as successful inattention measures in previous studies in several populations (Polderman et al, 2013;Rusconi, Ferri, Viding, & Mitchener-Nissen, 2015;Sizoo et al, 2009).…”

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