Italian Validation of the Scale of Psychological Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence (EAPA-P)

Giulia Lausi, Benedetta Barchielli, Jessica Burrai, Anna Maria Giannini and Clarissa Cricenti
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Giulia Lausi: Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Marsi, 00185 Rome, Italy
Benedetta Barchielli: Department of Dynamic, Clinical Psychology and Health, Sapienza University of Rome, Via degli Apuli, 00185 Rome, Italy
Jessica Burrai: Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Marsi, 00185 Rome, Italy
Anna Maria Giannini: Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Marsi, 00185 Rome, Italy
Clarissa Cricenti: Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Marsi, 00185 Rome, Italy

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 23, 1-14

Abstract: Psychological and emotional forms of violence often represent a danger alarm and an important risk factor for other forms of intimate partner violence (IPV). Measuring psychological violence raises several issues of conceptualization and definition, which lead to the development of several assessment instruments; among them, the Scale of Psychological Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence (EAPA-P) showed good psychometric proprieties in a Spanish population and is used to identify which strategies are acted out to engage in psychological violence. The aim of the present study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Italian version of EAPA-P among a group of Italian-speaking women (N = 343), thus evaluating its psychometric characteristics. Based on the English translation of the original Spanish version, an 11-item form of the EAPA-P was obtained, validity has been assessed through measures of emotion dysregulation, interpersonal guilt, conflict among partners and depression, anxiety, and stress symptomatology. Moreover, differences among groups were conducted to identify the capacity of the Italian version of EAPA-P to discriminate among women reporting experiencing psychological violence (N = 179), and who don’t (N = 150). Results showed an excellent internal validity, good correlations, and a good discriminatory ability of the scale. Strengths, limitations, and practical implications of the study have been discussed according to recent literature.

Keywords: Italian population; psychological violence; self-report; violence against women; gender-based violence; domestic violence; assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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