Will they tell? Assessing preadolescents' reports of family violence
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 hypo...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch/Druck Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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1992
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Journal of research in crime and delinquency
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| Bestand in Tübingen: | In Tübingen vorhanden. IFK: In: Z 31 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| ISSN: | 0022-4278 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0022427892029002002 |