Table 4.
Convergent Validity of Sexual Assault Severity Scales for Women: Correlations
| Scoring methods | Relationship Abuse |
Relationship Violence |
Somatization | Depression | Anxiety | PTSD Intrusive Experiences |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conventional severity ranking scheme | ||||||
| Highest severity rank | .29*** | .31*** | .21*** | .13** | .14** | .24*** |
| Sum of ranks | .30*** | .34*** | .25*** | .16** | .18*** | .29*** |
| Sum of frequency of ranks | .34*** | .39***1 | .25*** | .17*** | .21*** | .31*** |
| Combined outcomes separated tactics severity ranking scheme | ||||||
| Highest severity rank | .35*** | .34*** | .20** | .14** | .15** | .28*** |
| Sum of ranks | .37***1 | .38*** | .21*** | .15** | .17*** | .30*** |
| Sum of frequency of ranks | .37***1 | .40***1 | .23*** | .15** | .19*** | .30*** |
| Separated outcomes and tactics severity ranking scheme | ||||||
| Highest severity rank | .34*** | .35*** | .21*** | .13** | .15** | .27*** |
| Sum of ranks | .35*** | .37*** | .25*** | .16** | .19*** | .29*** |
| Sum of frequency of ranks | .37***1 | .39***1 | .25*** | .16** | .21*** | .30*** |
| M = 18.4 SD = 12.0 | M = 1.4 SD = 0.5 | M = 1.3 SD = 0.4 | M = 1.9 SD = 0.8 | M = 1.6 SD = 0.6 | M = 1.6 SD = 0.5 | |
Note. M = mean; SD = standard deviation. Correlations were conducted using Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation.
**
p < .01.
***
p < .001.
1
Comparisons of correlation differences significant at p < .05.