Typos in artricle that cause erronious scoring of the Conflict Tactics Scales

["Murray Straus" <murray.straus@xxxxxxx>]

I received a phone call today from a researcher who used the Parent-Child
Conflict Tactics Scales (CTSPC) and who did not see the addendum to the
article on the CTSPC and therefore did not know about two serious
typographical errors that, unless corrected result in erroneous scores.
This person suggested that I post a note because others probably also missed
the addendum.

The article in Child  Abuse and Neglect, 1998, Volume 22, No. 4, pp pages
249-270 should be corrected as follows:

Page 255, Table 1, item M should be scalded (not scolded)

Page 256, line 6: The items in the Severe Physical Assault subscale include
item I (not item L).

Page 268, right column: Item V should be scored as part of the Minor
Physical Assault subscale, not as part of the Severe Physical Assault
subscale.


Ordinary and Severe Corporal punishment.  If you wish to distinguish between
ordinary and severe corporal punishment, use the following items to create
the subscale scores

Ordinary = items H and P, and for children age 2 and older, item C
Severe = items D, R, and V, and for children under 2, also item C.

I also recently prepared a memo on scoring the CTSPC and CTS2 which provides
more information than in the articles on these two instruments.   I can send
the memo as an attachment to anyone who requests it.

I am very sorry for the problems and I want to apologize to anyone who, like
today's caller, has had to redo analyses to correct the problem created by
these typos.

    Murray

Murray A. Straus, Professor of Sociology
& Co-Director,  Family Research Laboratory
University of New Hampshire,  Durham, NH 03824
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