PAVE: Proximal Antecedents to Violent Episodes scale
Babcock, J. C., Costa, D. M., Green, C. E., & Eckhardt, C. I. (2004). What situations induce intimate partner violence? A reliability and validity study of the Proximal Antecedents to Violent Episodes (PAVE) scale. Journal of Family Psychology, 18(3), 433.
6-point, Likert-type scale: responses range from 1 (not at all likely to be violent in the specific situation) to 6 (extremely likely to be violent in the specific situation).
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Cronbach’s α: Total scale = 0.97, Factor 1 = 0.95, Factor 2 = 0.74, Factor 3 = 0.95
Convergent validity, Discriminant validity
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Babcock, J. C., Costa, D. M., Green, C. E., & Eckhardt, C. I. (2004). What situations induce intimate partner violence? A reliability and validity study of the Proximal Antecedents to Violent Episodes (PAVE) scale. Journal of Family Psychology, 18(3), 433.
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