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Direct linkChan, Ko Ling – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The present study developed the Child Abuse Risk Assessment Scale (CARAS), an actuarial instrument for the assessment of the risk of physical child abuse. Data of 2,363 Chinese parents (47.7% male) living in Hong Kong were used in the analyses. Participants were individually interviewed with a questionnaire assessing their perpetration of child…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, At Risk Persons, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Caliso, John A.; Milner, Joel S. – Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 1992
A modified Conflict Tactics Scale and the Child Abuse Potential (CAP) Inventory were administered to three groups. The CAP abuse scores distinguished among physically abusive mothers with a childhood history of abuse and nonabusive mothers with and without a childhood history of abuse. Intergroup differences were exhibited in rigidity and…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, Early Experience, Emotional Problems
Download full textStraus, Murray A. – 1988
Application of the Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) to the assessment of child abuse is described. The CTS is a brief instrument designed to measure three aspects of parent-to-child behavior: (1) reasoning; (2) psychological aggression; and (3) physical aggression. The psychological and physical aggression indexes are intended to measure the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Concurrent Validity, Conflict, Family Problems
The Conflict Tactics Scales and Its Critics: An Evaluation and New Data on Validity and Reliability.
Straus, Murray A. – 1987
The Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) is the most widely used instrument for measuring the tactics used by members of a family in a conflict situation. It is intended to measure the extent to which family members use reasoning, verbal aggression, and physical aggression. Focus is on: (1) bringing together and evaluating criticisms of the CTS so that…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Concurrent Validity, Conflict, Construct Validity
Straus, Murray A.; Hamby, Sherry L.; Finkelhor, Daniv; Moore, David; Runyan, Desmond – 1997
The Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales (CTSPC), a version of the well-established Conflict Tactics Scales, was developed to improve its ability to obtain data on physical and psychological child maltreatment. The conceptual and methodological approaches used to develop the CTSPC are described and psychometric data, including reliability,…
Descriptors: Aggression, Child Abuse, Conflict, Data Collection
Straus, Murray A.; Hamby, Sherry L. – 1997
The Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) are intended to measure use of nonviolent discipline, psychological aggression, and physical assault in parent-child and other family relationships. The latter two scales provide a basis for identifying psychological and physical maltreatment. Two revisions of the CTS became available in 1996. One, the CTS2 is…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Conflict, Data Collection, Emotional Abuse
