Responsivity to Interviewer during Interview-Based Assessment of Physical Intimate Partner Violence.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Interview assessments of intimate partner violence (IPV) may provide more accurate behavior frequency estimates than self-report questionnaires. However, concerns have been raised about whether participants underreport IPV during interviews due to an emotional response to the interviewer.

Method

Participants were 42 mixed gender community couples (83 individuals) in which at least one partner endorsed physical IPV perpetration or victimization in their relationship. We examined whether participants were emotionally responsive to the interviewer during an interview about physical IPV. Responsivity was defined as the extent to which participants' emotional arousal, indexed by vocal fundamental frequency (f₀), was predicted by interviewers' emotional arousa

SUBMITTER: Taverna E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11178289 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature