Establishing Validity of the Family Violence Screener
| dc.contributor.advisor | Turner, G. Marc | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bower, Catherine A. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Frey, Eric | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Seay, Ollie | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Huber, John | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-22T13:41:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-01-22T13:41:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Family Violence Screener (FVS) was developed to measure family violence exposure in high-risk adolescents, and to predict future family violence offenses in youths who had been exposed. There are few other measures of family violence, specifically those targeted at high-risk adolescents. The instruments currently in existence tend to be lengthy, lack rigor, are not reliable, or have not been administered to at-risk youth. The FVS was administered to over 11,000 times at the Travis County Juvenile Probation Department (TCJPD) over a four year period. A sample of 1,642 juvenile detainees was analyzed for the purposes of this research. The FVS was found to be significantly correlated with the MA YSI-2 Angry/Irritable sub-scale, as well as the nature offense. The FVS also appeared to be significantly correlated with the total number family violence offense charges. Discriminate and regression analyses suggested that the FVS is a strong predictor of family violence. Gender was also suggested to be a contributing factor to family violence, while age, ethnicity, non-violent offenses, and violent offenses were not correlated to family violence. Future research may wish to compare the FVS with some or, all of the other sub-scales in the MAYSl-2. | |
| dc.description.department | Psychology | |
| dc.format | Text | |
| dc.format.extent | 43 pages | |
| dc.format.medium | 1 file (.pdf) | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bower, C. A. (2006). Establishing validity of the family violence screener (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10877/9209 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | family violence | |
| dc.subject | children and violence | |
| dc.title | Establishing Validity of the Family Violence Screener | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| thesis.degree.department | Psychology | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Texas State University-San Marcos | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts |
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