RT Article
T1 Will they tell? Assessing preadolescents' reports of family violence
JF Journal of research in crime and delinquency
VO 29
IS 2
SP 136
OP 147
A1 Kruttschnitt, Candace
A1 Dornfeld, Maude
LA English
YR 1992
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1640130950
AB The article explores the validity and reliability of reports by preadolescents of family violence, aiming to improve the understanding of the ways in which contextual and measurement problems can produce discrepancies in victim and perpetrator accounts of interpersonal violence. Research on the hypothesized relationship between exposure to family violence and delinquent development has grown enormously over the past decade. In order to determine whether and how responses by mothers and their children would differ among clinical and nonclinical populations, researchers used a snowball sampling technique to obtain a community sample. Children significantly underreport the extent to which their mothers victimize them. Among the clinical sample, roughly 20% fewer children than mothers report that either acts of aggression or violence occurred in the past year. A comparable picture appears for the community youth with regard to verbal aggression, but an even higher discrepancy appears with regard to acts of physical violence in the past year. By contrast, youth provide relatively accurate assessments of the extent to which their father was violent toward their mother in the past year
K1 Kindesmisshandlung
K1 Partnergewalt
DO 10.1177/0022427892029002002