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Castro's Measure of Violence Against Women

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Source Article

Castro, R., Garcia, L., Ruiz, A., & Peek-Asa, C. (2006). Developing an Index to Measure Violence Against Women for Comparative Studies Between Mexico and the United States. Journal of Family Violence. 21(1): 95-104

Response Options

Assigning a severity to each item.

Survey Items

  1. Humiliates you
  2. Destroys your things
  3. Insults you
  4. Throws an object at you
  5. Pushes you
  6. Twists your arm
  7. Threatens to hit you
  8. Becomes jealous of your friends
  9. Tell you that you are ugly
  10. Shakes you
  11. Makes you feel frightened of him
  12. Threatens you with a gun
  13. Threatens you with a knife
  14. Kicks you
  15. Shoots at you with a gun
  16. Hits you with a stick
  17. Attacks you with an object
  18. Hits you with a hand or fist
  19. Attacks you with knife
  20. Threatens to kill you
  21. Tries to choke you
  22. Hits you in the abdomen
  23. Uses physical force to have sex with you
  24. Demands sex when you are not willing
  25. Hits the wall or other furniture
  26. Threatens to have sex with another partner

Internal Reliability

Cronbach’s α = 0.928

Validity

Factor structure reported

Google Scholar

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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:

Castro, R., Garcia, L., Ruiz, A., & Peek-Asa, C. (2006). Developing an Index to Measure Violence Against Women for Comparative Studies Between Mexico and the United States. Journal of Family Violence. 21(1): 95-104

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.