Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Assessing the risks of future psychological abuse: predicting the accuracy of battered women's predictions
Other Titles:	Journal of family violence
Authors:	Goodman, Lisa A Dutton, Mary Ann Bell, Margret E Cattaniao, Lauren Bennett
Keywords:	Risk assessment
Year:	2008
Publisher:	Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers
Citation:	23 (2), February 2008
Notes:	Building on a handful of studies demonstrating battered women’s accuracy in assessing their risk of being physically reabused, this study examined how accurately victims assess their risk of future psychological abuse. Participants’ ratings of the likelihood that their partner would engage in controlling/dominance behaviors or efforts to humiliate/degrade them in the coming year and their reports 18 months later of whether this had actually occurred were used to create a four category version of accuracy (true positive, false positive, true negative, false negative). Victims were more likely to be right than wrong in their assessments of risk; PTSD symptoms, the recency of physical violence, and the degree of stalking and psychological abuse in the relationship predicted membership in the four accuracy categories. These findings overlap considerably with those examining victim accuracy in predicting physical abuse and inform ongoing debates about the value of incorporating victims’ insights into risk assessment efforts. [?2008 Springer. All rights reserved. For further information, visit SpringerLink.]
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13485
ISSN:	0885-7482
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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