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      Measuring Perceived Severity of Intimate Partner Violence against Women (IPVAW) among the General Population and IPVAW Offenders Translated title: Evaluación de la gravedad percibida de la violencia de pareja contra la mujer en la población general y en hombres agresores de pareja

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          ABSTRACT

          Public perceptions of the severity of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) incidents are an important factor that has been linked to key issues regarding this type of violence, such as acceptability or tolerance, personal sense of responsibility, attitudes toward intervention, and the public’s, professionals’, and victims’ responses to IPVAW. The aim of the present study was to provide further validity evidence for the perceived severity of IPVAW scale (PS-IPVAW), by assessing its measurement invariance between gender and age groups, and between men from the general population and male IPVAW offenders. Item response theory was also used to assess the discrimination of the items and their position on the measured latent trait continuum (i.e., perceived severity of IPVAW). To this end, the psychometric properties of the scale were examined in four different samples from the general population ( N = 2,627) and in one clinical sample of male IPVAW offenders ( N = 200). Our findings showed that the PS-IPVAW scale has excellent internal consistency (α = .89-.90) and a clear one-factor latent structure (CFI = .91-.96, RMSEA = .055-.086), and that partial strict invariance holds across different gender and age groups. We also found that IPVAW offenders’ perceptions of the severity of IPVAW may follow a different pattern to that of men from the general population. The PS-IPVAW scale is able to yield accurate assessments of the perceived severity of this type of violence among the general population and IPVAW offenders.

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          La percepción pública de la gravedad de los incidentes de violencia contra la mujer en las relaciones de pareja (VMP) es un factor importante relacionado con aspectos clave de este tipo de violencia, como su aceptabilidad o tolerancia, el sentido de responsabilidad personal, las actitudes hacia la intervención y las respuestas a la VMP de la población general, los profesionales y las víctimas. El objetivo de este estudio fue proporcionar nuevas evidencias de validez de la escala PS-IPVAW [Perceived Severity of Intimate Partner Violence against Women], analizando su invarianza factorial entre géneros y distintos grupos de edad y entre hombres de la población general y hombres agresores de pareja. También se utilizó la teoría de respuesta al ítem para evaluar la discriminación de los ítems y su posición en el continuo del rasgo latente evaluado (i.e., la gravedad percibida de la VMP). Se examinaron las propiedades psicométricas de la escala en cuatro muestras de la población general ( N = 2,627) y en una muestra clínica de hombres agresores de pareja ( N = 200). Los resultados mostraron que la escala PS-IPVAW tuvo una excelente consistencia interna (α = .89-.90), una estructura latente unifactorial (CFI = .91-.96, RMSEA = .055-.086) y que se puede mantener el nivel de invarianza factorial estricta parcial entre géneros y distintos grupos de edad. Se encontró también que los hombres agresores de pareja mostraban un patrón diferencial en la evaluación de la gravedad percibida de la VMP en comparación con hombres de la población general. La escala PS-IPVAW es un instrumento capaz de evaluar de forma precisa la gravedad percibida de la VMP en la población general y en hombres agresores de pareja.

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                Journal
                Interv Psicosoc
                Interv Psicosoc
                inter
                Psychosocial Intervention
                Colegio Oficial de la Psicología de Madrid
                1132-0559
                2173-4712
                13 May 2022
                May 2022
                : 31
                : 2
                : 109-119
                Affiliations
                [a ] orgnameAutonomous University of Madrid Madrid Spain originalAutonomous University of Madrid, Spain
                [b ] orgnameUniversity of Valencia Valencia Spain originalUniversity of Valencia, Spain
                Author notes
                Correspondencia: manuel.martinfernandez@ 123456uam.es (M. Martín-Fernández).

                Conflict of Interest: The authors of this article declare no conflict of interest.

                Article
                00004
                10.5093/pi2022a8
                10268558
                37360057
                65f98cb3-b459-411f-82ce-00e940eedfa5
                Copyright © 2022, Colegio Oficial de la Psicología de Madrid

                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial No Derivative License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited and the work is not changed in any way.

                History
                : 12 February 2022
                : 18 April 2022
                Page count
                Figures: 3, Tables: 7, Equations: 0, References: 88
                Funding
                Funded by: FEDER
                Award ID: PSI2017-84764-P
                Funded by: Autonomous Community of Madrid
                Award ID: SI3/PJI/2021-00195
                Funding: This study has been supported by FEDER/Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities – State Research Agency (PSI2017-84764-P) and by the program of stimuli for young researchers of the Autonomous Community of Madrid (SI3/PJI/2021-00195).
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                intimate partner violence against women,perceived severity,intimate partner violence offenders,measurement invariance,item response theory,violencia contra la mujer en las relaciones de pareja,gravedad percibida,hombres agresores de pareja,invarianza factorial,teoría de respuesta al ítem

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