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Item Measuring interpersonal violation(Texas Tech University, 1998-08) Newsom, Walter ScottThis document describes the initial development of The Interpersonal Violation Questionnaire (TVQ). The IVQ is a self-report instrument designed to measure perpetration of and victimization by potentially harmful physical, sexual, verbal and nonverbal behaviors within close romantic relationships. Previously published instruments measuring various aspects of interpersonal violation and current standards for constructing and validating a measurement instrument were reviewed. The conceptualization of the IVQ included a definition of interpersonal violation that included discussion of important theoretical issues such as intentions, outcomes, harm, consent, type of act, norms and context, and an appropriate measurement model was specified. Content analysis by a panel of 10 experts returned 159 item pairs consistent with the definition of interpersonal violation. The IVQ was administered to 599 student participants from a large southwestern public university. Item Analysis retained 74 item pairs with sufficient endorsement rates and item-total correlations. Scales reflecting physical violation (PV), sexual violation (SV), verbal violation (W), non-verbal violation (NV) and total-violation (TV) for use with college student populations were constructed from these items. These college student interpersonal violation scales generally had adequate internal consistency and test-retest reliability given the measurement model specified. Prevalence rates indicate that 85.81% of the student sample have experienced some type of IPV as victim and/or perpetrator. The IVQ was also administered to a small (N=17) sample of women's shelter residents and a small group (n=24) of anger management seminar attendees. However, the small size of these samples limits the usefullness of these data. To assess the convergent and discriminant validity of the IVQ, it was administered along with the Partner Abuse Scale: Physical, the Partner Abuse Scale: Non-physical (Attala et al., 1994), the Sexual Experiences Survey (Koss & Oros, 1982), the Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992), the Relationship Assessment Scale (Hendrick, 1984), and the Mariowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (Crowne & Marlowe, 1964). It is possible that the less than desirable convergent validity results were due to a combination of population and measurement issues. However, the process of vaUdating a measurement instrument is an iterative, ongoing process and future studies with more appropriate clinical populations may provide more satisfactory results.