ADOLESCENT PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILY VIOLENCE.

Interest in the nature and causes of family violence in the United States has grown tremendously in recent years. Straus has reported a common factor analysis of the Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales he designed to assess three aspects of conflict among family members. To evaluate the CT Scales independently, the authors administered the scales to adolescents in families randomly selected from a rural southeastern Kansas community and from the city of Wichita, Kansas. The rural group included 47 males and 36 females, average age 15.1 years, SD = 2.1; the urban group included 53 males and 45 females, average age 15.8 years, SD = 2.1. The parents were typical of a Midwestern population, predominately Caucasian, middleclass, and Protestant, as described elsewhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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