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Conflict Tactics Scale
Dimension: Risk factors start consumption
Area
Personal
Specificity
Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
Year
1979
Author
Straus
Identification and Classification
- Instrument
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Conflict Tactics Scale
- Acronym
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M-CTS
- Area
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Personal
- Dimension
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Risk factors start consumption
- Specificity
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Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
- Objective
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Assess conflictivity and rates of violence
- Factors it measures
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- Argumentation
- Verbal psychological aggression
- Mild physical aggression
- Serious physical aggression
- Year
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1979
- Author
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Straus
- Author Contact Data
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Straus, Murray A.
Family Research Laboratory 126 Horton Social Science Center. University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824
Teléfono: 603-862-2594
E-mail: murray.straus@unh.edu
- Availability
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Free
- Link
Versions
Year
2007
Validation Country
Spain
Author
Muñoz-Rivas, Andreu, Graña, O’Leary, & González
Author Contact Data
Muñoz, Marina
Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid (España)
E-mail: marina.munoz@uam.es
References
Muñoz-Rivas, M. J., Andreu, J. M., Graña, J. L., O’Leary, D. K., & González, M. P. (2007). Validación de la versión modificada de la Conflicts Tactics Scale (M-CTS) en población juvenil española. Psicothema, 19, 693-698.
Year
2006
Validation Country
Portugal
Author
Alexandre, & Figueiredo
Author Contact Data
Alexandre, Carla
Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade do Minho
E-mail: cpaiva@iep.uminho.pt ; bbfi@iep.uminho.pt
References
Alexandre, C., & Figueiredo, B. (2006). Versão portuguesa das “Escalas de Táticas de Conflito Revisadas”: Estudo de validação. Psicologia: Teoria e Prática, 8, 14-39.
Description
- Abstract
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M-CTS is an instrument for evaluating the way in which individuals resolve discrepancies with their partners. Identify violent verbal and physical behavior in dating relationships in young people and adolescents. For this purpose, it uses a total of 18 bidirectional items for aggressor and victim on a Likert-type scale
- Psychometric characteristics
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Internal consistency indexes range from .79 to .95, as well as, concurrent validity shows the lowest correlations in argumentation and high in physical aggression in conflictive environments.
- No. of items
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It consists of 18 bidirectional items for the aggressor and for the victim with a Likert-type answer format
- Duration
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10 min
- Way of administration
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- Individual and collective
- Paper
- Way of qualification
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It is punctuated by the sum of the scores indicating the level of violence exercised aggressor / victim
- Application context
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Clinic
- Population
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Adults and adolescents
- References
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Straus, M. A. (1979). Measuring intrafamily conflict and aggression: The Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS). Journal of Marriage and The Family, 41, 75-88.