Instrument details

Instrument Title

CARS: Cyber Aggression in Relationships Scale

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Source Article

Watkins, L., E., Maldonado, R. C., & DiLillo, D. (2016). The Cyber Aggression in Relationships Scale: A new multidimensional measure of technology-based intimate partner aggression. Assessment, 1-19.

Response Options

Likert Scale ranging from 0 = this has never happened to me, to 6 = this has happened for than 20 times

Survey Items

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Internal Reliability

Victimization: Psychological cyber aggression: Cronbach’s α= .75 Sexual cyber aggression: Cronbach’s α= .71 Stalking cyber aggression: Cronbach’s α= .85 Perpetration: Psychological cyber aggression: Cronbach’s α= .74 Sexual cyber aggression: Cronbach’s α= .66 Stalking cyber aggression: Cronbach’s α= .85

Validity

Content Validity, Convergent Validity, and Factor Structure

Google Scholar

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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:

Watkins, L., E., Maldonado, R. C., & DiLillo, D. (2016). The Cyber Aggression in Relationships Scale: A new multidimensional measure of technology-based intimate partner aggression. Assessment, 1-19.

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.