Hudson and McIntosh developed a questionnaire to identify physical and nonphysical abuse in a relationship. The authors are from Florida State University and the University of Hawaii.
NOTE: The index is copyright 1978 by the authors.
The questionnaire consists of 30 statements about the person's partner.
where:
• The questions do not appear to be gender neutral.
• The questions do not seem to include passive aggressive behaviors (withholding behaviors, etc.)
• In the spreadsheet I modified the statements to handle same gender relationships. Question 20 was a problem to get the proper wording.
Statement |
Weight |
1 |
1 |
2 |
17 |
3 |
15 |
4 |
50 |
5 |
4 |
6 |
8 |
7 |
75 |
8 |
26 |
9 |
8 |
10 |
20 |
11 |
41 |
12 |
15 |
13 |
82 |
14 |
12 |
15 |
20 |
16 |
14 |
17 |
98 |
18 |
21 |
19 |
13 |
20 |
18 |
21 |
52 |
22 |
38 |
23 |
80 |
24 |
65 |
25 |
29 |
26 |
39 |
27 |
44 |
28 |
55 |
29 |
29 |
30 |
80 |
Responses are by a 5 point Likert scale graded from 1 to 5 (never, rarely, occasionally, frequently, very frequently).
points for each item =
= (item weight) * (score for response)
total points for physical abuse =
= SUM(3, 4, 7, 13, 17, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30)
total points for nonphysical abuse =
SUM(1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 29)
index for physical abuse when all items answered =
= (((total points for physical abuse) / 682) – 1) * 25
index for nonphysical abuse when all items answered =
= (((total points for nonphysical abuse) / 387) – 1) * 25
where:
• The indices are based on equations 3, 4 and 5 on pages 874-875.
• 682 is the minimum total points for the physical abuse subscore.
• 387 is the minimum total points for the nonphysical abuse subscore.
Interpretation:
• minimum index = 0
• maximum index = 100
• The higher the score the greater the relative degree or amount of abuse.
Specialty: Clinical Laboratory, Emergency Medicine, Pedatrics