Psychometric Assessment of the Burgess-Partner Abuse Scale for Teens (B-PAST)
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| contents | Psychometric Assessment of the Burgess-Partner Abuse Scale for Teens (B-PAST) Stephanie E. Burgess Abbas Tavakoli Medicina adolescentes Abuso de compañeros evaluación psicométrica Purpose. The purpose of this study was to assess the psychometricproperties of the Burgess-Partner Abuse Scale for Teens (B-PAST) by examininginternal consistency and construct validity.Methods. A convenience sample of 239 teen girls ages 13 to 19 years oldthat were seen in three private primary health care practices agreed to participate.Subjects were administered two measures of interpersonal violence, two measuresof psychosocial well-being, and a demographic questionnaire. Construct validitywas assessed by 1) conducting exploratory factor analysis with a priori decisionto retain two factors, and 2) measuring differential correlates of interpersonalviolence and psychosocial well-being using Pearson correlation. In order todetermine the instrument’s ability to discriminate between teen girls who reportedpartner abuse and those who did not report partner abuse, differences in contrastedgroup means (abused vs. non-abused) were examined. One-way ANOVA wasused to determine differences in interpersonal violence and psychosocial wellbeing.The internal consistency of the B-PAST was examined by setting a criterionfor the alpha coefficient above .70.Results. The results showed that 70.9% of the variance was explainedby the B-PAST. Factor analysis demonstrated a 22-item scale with twodistinct subscales. The B-PAST correlated with one measure of interpersonalpeer violence (r = .39) and two measures of poor psychosocial well-being,low level of hope and increased depression (r = -.42, r = .46). Differencesin contrasted means showed that teen girls who were abused by a partnerreported higher scores for interpersonal violence. One-way ANOVA showedthat abused teen girls scored higher for interpersonal violence and depressionbut lower in hope. The internal consistency for the final total scale was .97and .95 for physical/sexual abuse and .91 for the social/emotional abusesubscales.Conclusions. Results provide support for reliability and validity for the BPASTas a measure of partner abuse in teen girls ages 13 to 19. 2005 artículo científico 1657-5997 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=74150110 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=741 Aquichan application/pdf Universidad de La Sabana Aquichan (Colombia) Num.1 Vol.5 |
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| spellingShingle | Psychometric Assessment of the Burgess-Partner Abuse Scale for Teens (B-PAST) Stephanie E. Burgess Medicina adolescentes Abuso de compañeros evaluación psicométrica Psychometric Assessment of the Burgess-Partner Abuse Scale for Teens (B-PAST) Stephanie E. Burgess Abbas Tavakoli Medicina adolescentes Abuso de compañeros evaluación psicométrica Purpose. The purpose of this study was to assess the psychometricproperties of the Burgess-Partner Abuse Scale for Teens (B-PAST) by examininginternal consistency and construct validity.Methods. A convenience sample of 239 teen girls ages 13 to 19 years oldthat were seen in three private primary health care practices agreed to participate.Subjects were administered two measures of interpersonal violence, two measuresof psychosocial well-being, and a demographic questionnaire. Construct validitywas assessed by 1) conducting exploratory factor analysis with a priori decisionto retain two factors, and 2) measuring differential correlates of interpersonalviolence and psychosocial well-being using Pearson correlation. In order todetermine the instrument’s ability to discriminate between teen girls who reportedpartner abuse and those who did not report partner abuse, differences in contrastedgroup means (abused vs. non-abused) were examined. One-way ANOVA wasused to determine differences in interpersonal violence and psychosocial wellbeing.The internal consistency of the B-PAST was examined by setting a criterionfor the alpha coefficient above .70.Results. The results showed that 70.9% of the variance was explainedby the B-PAST. Factor analysis demonstrated a 22-item scale with twodistinct subscales. The B-PAST correlated with one measure of interpersonalpeer violence (r = .39) and two measures of poor psychosocial well-being,low level of hope and increased depression (r = -.42, r = .46). Differencesin contrasted means showed that teen girls who were abused by a partnerreported higher scores for interpersonal violence. One-way ANOVA showedthat abused teen girls scored higher for interpersonal violence and depressionbut lower in hope. The internal consistency for the final total scale was .97and .95 for physical/sexual abuse and .91 for the social/emotional abusesubscales.Conclusions. Results provide support for reliability and validity for the BPASTas a measure of partner abuse in teen girls ages 13 to 19. 2005 artículo científico 1657-5997 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=74150110 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=741 Aquichan application/pdf Universidad de La Sabana Aquichan (Colombia) Num.1 Vol.5 |
| title | Psychometric Assessment of the Burgess-Partner Abuse Scale for Teens (B-PAST) |
| topic | Medicina adolescentes Abuso de compañeros evaluación psicométrica |
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