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Development and Validation of a Coercive Control Measure for Intimate Partner Violence in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, DC, 2004

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Principal Investigator(s): Dutton, Mary Ann; Goodman, Lisa; Schmidt, R. James

Summary: The overall goals of this project were to develop a clear theoretical understanding of coercive control and to develop a measure of "nonviolent coercive control" for use in the measurement of intimate partner violence (IPV). The psychometric properties of the newly developed coercive control measure were assessed between February and September 2004 in a total sample of 757 that included 302 males and 448 females from the metropolitan Washington, DC, and Boston areas. Of this sample, 13... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04570.v1

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