The Violent Behavior Vignette Questionnaire (VBVQ): A Measure of Violent Behavior for Research in Forensic and Non-Forensic Settings and Populations

Nunes, Kevin L.; Hermann, Chantal A.; Maimone, Sacha; Atlas, Maya; Grant, Brian A.

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“…Measuring violence has been challenging due to differing perspectives and methodological issues. Nunes, Hermann, Maimone, Atlas, and Grant (2019) recently developed the Violence Propensity Vignette Questionnaire (VPVQ) as a proxy measure to assess propensity for violent behaviour applicable to both community and forensic/correctional populations and settings. The VPVQ vignettes were developed using both clinical and research sources, with the aim of creating a measure of current propensity for violence that was valid for use with forensic and non-forensic samples.…”

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“…Second, it might require increased observation and data collection time, which can become costly and ineffective, and this makes strong research methodologies like randomized control trials difficult to conduct. Third, an insufficient sample size may be collected to detect the effect, even if there is a true effect to be detected (Nunes et al, 2019).…”

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“…The tools used in lab studies of violent behaviour are ideal for ensuring high internal validity. However, they have been criticized for their lack of perceived convergence to "real world" violent behaviour, their general versus specific examination of aggression, and the difficulty with maintaining the deception necessary to maintain accuracy of these measures (Grych & Hamby, 2014;Nunes et al, 2019;Ruiz-Perez et al, 2007).…”

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“…On the other hand, lab-based researchers have been skeptical of research conducted in applied forensic settings for their lack of experimental control (e.g., limited number of randomized control trials due to the challenges associated with low base rates of violence and long follow-up times for official sources of violent behaviour, as previously discussed; Nunes et al, 2019).…”

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“…The vignettes were presented in a randomized order alongside a series of forced-choice response options adapted from the responses to the previous validation phases. Base rates were recorded for each validation phase to ensure consistency across the samples (Nunes et al, 2019). Similar results were replicated in the third stage, and the final list of ten relevant vignettes culminated in what is now the VPVQ.…”

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Factor Structure and Distinctiveness of the Violence Propensity Vignette Questionnaire (VPVQ)

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Measuring violence has been challenging due to differing perspectives and methodological issues. Nunes, Hermann, Maimone, Atlas, and Grant (2019) recently developed and initially validated the Violence Propensity Vignette Questionnaire (VPVQ) as a proxy measure to assess propensity for violent behaviour applicable to both community and forensic/correctional populations and settings. The current study used exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and examined semi-partial correlations to determine the factor structure of the VPVQ vignettes and response options, and the distinctiveness of the VPVQ in the developmental sample of community males. A 1-factor structure emerged for the vignettes, and the semi-partial correlations suggest a small but unique significant contribution. These results suggest that the VPVQ is measuring a unique construct independent of the comparison measures. The VPVQ response options EFA was problematic. Possible explanations for the emergent factor structures, challenges, and future directions for research and use of the VPVQ are discussed.

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Factor Structure and Distinctiveness of the Violence Propensity Vignette Questionnaire (VPVQ)

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Using reaction time procedures to assess implicit attitudes toward violence in a nonconvicted male sample

Maimone,

Seto,

Ahmed

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In this study, we sought to capture implicit attitudes toward violence by administering response latency measures. We then examined their associations with explicit (e.g., assessed with self‐report) attitudes toward violence and self‐reported violent behavior in a combined sample of males from a Canadian university and males from the general community (N = 251; 156 students and 95 community members). To date, there have been mixed findings regarding these associations; some of this inconsistency may be due to the difficulty in accurately conceptualizing and assessing implicit attitudes toward violence. Therefore, we administered three response latency measures to assess this construct: a violence evaluation implicit association test (VE‐IAT), a personalized VE‐IAT (P‐VE‐IAT), and a violence evaluation relational responding task, along with three self‐report measures of explicit attitudes toward violence and three self‐report measures of violent behavior. More positive implicit attitudes toward violence were related to more positive explicit attitudes toward violence (for VE‐IAT and P‐VE‐IAT; r = 0.18 to 0.22), greater likelihood of violence (for VE‐IAT; r = 0.18 and for P‐VE‐IAT; r = 0.16), and greater propensity for violence (for the VE‐IAT; r = 0.16). All measures of explicit attitudes toward violence and violent behavior were moderately to strongly associated with one another (r = 0.42 to 0.81). Furthermore, implicit attitudes toward violence explained additional variance in some violent outcomes above explicit attitudes alone. Our findings suggest that scores on certain reaction time measures are important for understanding likelihood and propensity for violence, especially when combined with explicit attitude measures.

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The Evaluation of Violence Questionnaire (EVQ): Development and validity of a self-report measure of evaluative attitudes toward violence.

Nunes¹,

Pedneault²,

Hermann³

2021

Psychology of Violence

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Objective: We developed a self-report measure to assess men's evaluative attitudes toward violence (i.e., extent to which violence is viewed negatively or positively) and explored the construct validity of its scores. Method: In Study 1, we created a large pool of items, which we administered to two separate online samples of men from the community (N = 318; N = 226). In Study 2, we conducted a randomized experiment as an initial test of the construct validity of the retained items with a new online sample of 510 men from the community. If the measure assesses evaluative attitudes toward violence, then its scores should change in response to established evaluative-attitude-change procedures. Participants were randomly assigned to a condition to make evaluative attitudes toward violence more negative or to a control condition. Results: In Study 1, we retained 17 items to create the Evaluation of Violence Questionnaire (EVQ); selection was based primarily on item variance (to avoid floor effects), interitem correlations (to eliminate redundancy), and factor structure (to ensure unidimensionality). In Study 2, EVQ scores significantly decreased from pre-to posttest for participants in the experimental condition, but did not change for participants in the control condition (comparison of change between conditions: Cohen's d = −0.52, 95% CI [−0.79, −0.25]). Similarly, posttest EVQ scores were significantly lower for participants in the experimental condition than for participants in the control condition (Cohen's d = −0.36, 95% CI [−0.54, −0.17]). Conclusion: These results provide initial support for the construct validity of EVQ scores.

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The Violent Behavior Vignette Questionnaire (VBVQ): A Measure of Violent Behavior for Research in Forensic and Non-Forensic Settings and Populations

Cited by 9 publications

References 55 publications

Factor Structure and Distinctiveness of the Violence Propensity Vignette Questionnaire (VPVQ)

Factor Structure and Distinctiveness of the Violence Propensity Vignette Questionnaire (VPVQ)

Using reaction time procedures to assess implicit attitudes toward violence in a nonconvicted male sample

The Evaluation of Violence Questionnaire (EVQ): Development and validity of a self-report measure of evaluative attitudes toward violence.

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