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The Conflict Tactics Scales and Its Critics: An Evaluation and New Data on Validity and Reliability.
Download full textStraus, Murray A. – 1987
The Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) is the most widely used instrument for measuring the tactics used by members of a family in a conflict situation. It is intended to measure the extent to which family members use reasoning, verbal aggression, and physical aggression. Focus is on: (1) bringing together and evaluating criticisms of the CTS so that…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Concurrent Validity, Conflict, Construct Validity
Straus, Murray A.; Hamby, Sherry L. – 1997
The Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) are intended to measure use of nonviolent discipline, psychological aggression, and physical assault in parent-child and other family relationships. The latter two scales provide a basis for identifying psychological and physical maltreatment. Two revisions of the CTS became available in 1996. One, the CTS2 is…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Conflict, Data Collection, Emotional Abuse
