Instrument details

Instrument Title

CPA: Cyber Psychological Abuse Scale

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Source Article

Leisring, P & Giumetti, G. (2014). Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But Abusive Text Messages Also Hurt: Development and Validation of the Cyber Psychological Abuse Scale. Partner Abuse. 5(3): 323-341

Response Options

7-point Likert scale ranging from 0 (never) to 6 (more than 20 times)

Survey Items

Note: Items shown are for victimization scale. Perpetration scales are identical, with the exception that “your partner” is changed to “you” and that “you” is changed to “your partner.”

*Items with an ellipsis ( … ) have the phrase “in an e-mail, instant message, text message, or on a social networking site?” at the end.

Factor 1: Minor Cyber Abuse

1. Has your partner called you names …
2. Has your partner sworn at you …
3. Has your partner insulted you …
4. Has your partner abruptly stopped email, instant messaging, or text messaging during a disagreement?
5. Has your partner used capital letters to “shout” at you …
6. Has your partner kept tabs on you by checking your e-mail messages, messages on your cell phone, or inbox messages on social networking site?

Factor 2: Severe Cyber Abuse

1. Has your partner threatened you …
2. Has your partner sent an e-mail about you to others to hurt or embarrass you?
3. Has your partner posted inappropriate pictures or embarrassing information online to humiliate you?

Internal Reliability

Cronbach’s α values: 0.81 for victimizations scale and 0.82 for perpetration scale

Validity

Content Validity, Convergent Validity, Discriminant Validity, Criterion Validity, and Factor Structure

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Terms Of Use

Individuals may use this information for research or educational purposes only and may not use this information for commercial purposes. When using this instrument, please cite:

Leisring, P & Giumetti, G. (2014). Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But Abusive Text Messages Also Hurt: Development and Validation of the Cyber Psychological Abuse Scale. Partner Abuse. 5(3): 323-341

When presenting results using any survey information you obtained from the SABI, please acknowledge the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), an NIH funded program P30 AI50410.