Intimate Partner Violence and Children's Health After Parental Separation: Development and Psychometric Testing of the HELP-T Scale.

IF 3.3 2区社会学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES

Child Maltreatment Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI:10.1177/10775595251339612

Kathryn J Spearman, Nancy Perrin, Christina Bethell, Kamila A Alexander, Jennifer Hardesty, Jacquelyn Campbell

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Abstract

Validated instruments that measure intimate partner violence (IPV) following separation from an abusive co-parent ("post-separation abuse" (PSA)), are needed to understand and mitigate risks to child health. Items for the Healthcare, Economic, and Legal Post-Separation Abuse and Coercive Tactics (HELP-T) Scale were generated based on qualitative interviews with maternal survivors (N = 33) and expert review. Reliability, construct validity, and concurrent validity were tested in a sample (N = 497) of maternal survivors experiencing PSA in the US. Exploratory factor analysis assessed construct validity, and Cronbach's alpha assessed subscale reliability. Iterative principal factor analysis revealed 3 subscales for 22 items that were labeled (1) Healthcare PSA, (2) Legal PSA, and (3) Economic PSA, and demonstrated strong reliability with Cronbach's alphas from 0.82 to 0.89. The three subscales exhibit strong preliminary psychometric properties and provide insights to help health and legal professionals measure and establish PSA tactics.

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父母分离后亲密伴侣暴力与儿童健康：HELP-T量表的编制与心理测量。

为了了解和减轻对儿童健康的风险，需要使用经过验证的工具来衡量与施虐的共同父母分离后的亲密伴侣暴力（“分离后虐待”）。分离后的医疗、经济和法律虐待和胁迫策略（HELP-T）量表的项目是基于对母亲幸存者（N = 33）的定性访谈和专家评审而产生的。信度、结构效度和并发效度在美国经历PSA的母亲幸存者样本（N = 497）中进行了测试。探索性因子分析评估构念效度，Cronbach’s alpha评估子量表信度。迭代主因子分析显示，22个条目的3个子量表分别为(1)医疗PSA、(2)法律PSA和(3)经济PSA，其Cronbach's α值在0.82 ~ 0.89之间，具有较强的信度。这三个子量表显示出强大的初步心理测量特性，并提供了见解，以帮助卫生和法律专业人员测量和建立PSA策略。

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Child Maltreatment Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Child Maltreatment is the official journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the nation"s largest interdisciplinary child maltreatment professional organization. Child Maltreatment"s object is to foster professional excellence in the field of child abuse and neglect by reporting current and at-issue scientific information and technical innovations in a form immediately useful to practitioners and researchers from mental health, child protection, law, law enforcement, medicine, nursing, and allied disciplines. Child Maltreatment emphasizes perspectives with a rigorous scientific base that are relevant to policy, practice, and research.