Instrument details

Instrument Title

BCCS: Brief Coercion and Conflicts Scales

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Source Article

Cook, S.L. & Goodman, L. A. (2006). Beyond frequency and severity: Development and validation of the Brief Coercion and Conflict Scales. Violence Against Women, 12(11), 1050-1072.

Response Options

Likert Scale: (0) None of the time, (1) Some of the time, (2) About one half the time, (3) More than one half the time, (4) All the time

Survey Items

How often:

  1. Did she or he threaten you with a weapon?
  2. Could you tell that she or he was going to act this way?
  3. Did she or he do it to keep you from doing something you wanted or needed to do?
  4. Did she or he act this way out of the blue?
  5. Were you in a fight?
  6. Did she or he act this way to make you do something you didn’t want to do?
  7. Were you in an argument?

Internal Reliability

Reliability information was not available.

Validity

Content Validity, Convergent Validity, Discriminant Validity, and Factor Structure

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Terms Of Use

Individuals may use this information for research or educational purposes only and may not use this information for commercial purposes. When using this instrument, please cite:

Cook, S.L. & Goodman, L. A. (2006). Beyond frequency and severity: Development and validation of the Brief Coercion and Conflict Scales. Violence Against Women, 12(11), 1050-1072.

When presenting results using any survey information you obtained from the SABI, please acknowledge the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), an NIH funded program P30 AI50410.