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The Development and Validation of the Indian Family Violence and Control Scale

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  • Ameeta S Kalokhe
  • Rob Stephenson
  • Mary E Kelley
  • Kristin L Dunkle
  • Anuradha Paranjape
  • Vikram Solas
  • Latika Karve
  • Carlos del Rio
  • Seema Sahay

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The high prevalence of domestic violence (DV) among married women in India and associated negative health repercussions highlight the need for effective prevention strategies and tools to measure the efficacy of such interventions. Literature supporting differing manifestations of DV by culture underscores the need for a culturally-tailored scale to more effectively measure DV in the Indian context. We therefore aimed to develop and validate such a tool, the Indian Family Violence and Control Scale (IFVCS), through a mixed-methods study. The psychometric development of IFVCS is herein discussed. After field pre-testing and expert review, a 63-item questionnaire was administered to a random sample of 630 married women from May-July 2013 in Pune, India. The item response theory approach for binary data to explore the IFVCS structure suggested that IFVCS is reliable, with the majority of items having high (>0.5) and significant factor loadings. Concurrent validity, assessed by comparing responses to IFVCS with the validated, abridged Conflict Tactics Scale-2, was high (r = 0.899, p

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  • Ameeta S Kalokhe & Rob Stephenson & Mary E Kelley & Kristin L Dunkle & Anuradha Paranjape & Vikram Solas & Latika Karve & Carlos del Rio & Seema Sahay, 2016. "The Development and Validation of the Indian Family Violence and Control Scale," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(1), pages 1-15, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0148120
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148120
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