The Intimate Partner Violence Responsibility Attribution Scale (IPVRAS)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to present a psychometrically sound instrument to assess intimate partner violence offenders' responsibility attributions: the Intimate Partner Violence Responsibility Attribution Scale. The scale was administrated to 423 adult male intimate partner violence offenders court-mandated to a community-based intervention program. A three factor structure (responsibility attribution to the legal system, responsibility attribution to the victim, and responsibility attribution to the offender personal context) was supported using confirmatory factor analysis. Reliability of the scales in this study was estimated using Cronbach's alpha, ρ and greatest lower bound. The Intimate Partner Violence Responsibility Attribution Scale correlated in theoretically expected ways with variables used to assess construct validity (system blaming, problems with partner, and responsibility assumption) and with variables used to assess criterion-related validity (satisfaction with legal system, victim-blaming attitudes, alcohol consumption, hostile sexism, stressful life events, social desirability, impulsivity and household income). Results support the validity and reliability of the Intimate Partner Violence Responsibility Attribution Scale.

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

“…In fact, research has confirmed that people attribute IPV to the provocative personality of the victims (e.g. Gracia & Tomás, 2014;Lila et al, 2014). The third factor (Abuser Responsible for Violence, ARV), retained items from the IBWB (Saunders et al, 1987) which attributed responsibility directly or indirectly to the victims (e.g.…”

“…However, there are reliable instruments for which psychometric are available, these include the Inventory of Beliefs about Wife Beating (IBWB, Saunders, Lynch, Grayson, & Linz, 1987), the Domestic Violence Myth Acceptance Scale (Peters, 2008) and the Intimate Partner Violence Responsibility Attribution Scale (IPVRAS, Lila, Oliver, Catalá-Miñana, Galiana, & Gracia, 2014). Of the instruments mentioned, the IBWB is the only one designed to assess general and specific attitudes towards domestic violence; the DVMAS assesses perceptions of myths about domestic violence (Peters, 2008) and the IPVRAS assesses perpetrators' attributions of responsibility for IPV.…”

Measuring Acceptability of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: Development and Validation of the A-IPVAW Scale

“…Benevolent sexism, on the other hand, is based on men's need for and reliance on women (e.g., "No matter how accomplished he is, a man is not truly complete as a person unless he has the love of a woman"). This inventory has been validated and adapted to more than twenty countries (Glick et al, 2000;Glick, Sakall, Urgurlu, Ferreira, & Aguilar de Souza, 2002), and has proved to be strongly related to IPVAW responsibility attribution and to attitudes toward intervention in IPVAW cases among police officers Lila, Oliver, Catalá-Miñana, Galiana, & Gracia, 2014). Both subscales showed a good internal consistency in the sample of this study (Cronbach's α = .88 and .89 for hostile and benevolent sexism, respectively).…”

Violência Conjugal: Crenças de Atuais e Futuros Profissionais, Implicados na sua Reposta e Prevenção – Direito, Saúde e Educação

“…O que, desde então, com a crescente participação criminal do fenómeno, se tem vindo, a verificar uma multiplicidade de pedidos de ajuda aos sistemas formal e judicial (Duarte, 2013;Machado et al, 2009). A par desta ação, a partir da década de 90, em Portugal, verifica-se também, um número crescente de trabalhos de investigação sobre tal tipo de violência, sobre a sua prevalência e dimensão (Machado et al, 2014) e uma compreensão mais qualitativa do fenómeno (Lila, Germes,Miñana, Llinares, & Gracia, 2014;Machado & Matos, 2001;Matos, 2000); constituindo-se, assim, um reflexo de uma maior sensibilidade face ao fenó-meno violência conjugal (Fatela, 1989;Winstok, 2016;Winstok, & Sowan-Basheer, 2015) e intolerância social face a comportamentos violentos. Do mesmo modo, é um fenómeno que vem sendo objeto de particular atenção de políticos, juristas, sociólogos, psicólogos e toda a espécie de curiosos, sobretudo, ligados a grupos de pressão com intervenção social; tratando-se de um complexo problema social, que o devir comunitário e a crescente consciência coletiva sobre a dimensão e efetividade dos direitos, vem impondo (Colossi, 2015;Alves et al 2012;Dias, 2004;Pinheiro et al 2012;Santos e Costa, 2004).…”