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Published in final edited form as: Psychol Violence. 2014 Oct;4(4):445–461. doi: 10.1037/a0037494

Table 6.

Convergent Validity of Sexual Assault Severity Scales for Men: Correlations

Scale	Psychological Relationship Violence	Physical Relationship Violence	Rape Myth Attitudes	Hostility Toward Women	Impulsivity	Sexual Sensation Seeking
Conventional severity ranking scheme
Highest severity rank	.31^***	.22^***	.29^***	.20^***	.17^**	.21^***
Sum of ranks	.31^***	.21^***	.29^***	.20^***	.18^**	.22^***
Sum of frequency of ranks	.33^***	.20^***	.29^***	.21^***	.21^***	.26^***
Combined outcomes separated tactics severity ranking scheme
Highest severity rank	.31^***	.23^***	.29^***	.20^***	.17^**	.21^***
Sum of ranks	.32^***	.24^***	.30^***	.20^***	.19^**	.22^***
Sum of frequency of ranks	.34^***	.22^***	.30^***	.19^**	.21^***	.26^***
Separated outcomes and tactics severity ranking scheme
Highest severity rank	.30^***	.21^***	.29^***	.19^**	.16^**	.21^***
Sum of ranks	.31^***	.23^***	.30^***	.19^**	.17^**	.22^***
Sum of frequency of ranks	.34^***	.21^***	.29^***	.20^***	.20^***	.26^***
	M = 4.4 SD = 10.0	M = 0.7 SD = 3.8	M = 1.8 SD = 0.8	M = 2.9 SD = 1.1	M = 7.3 SD = 4.1	M = 3.0 SD = 0.5

Note. M = mean; SD = standard deviation. Correlations were conducted using Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.