Table 1.
IPV victimisation and impact items
| Order | Victimisation items: How often altogether have any of your partners ever done any of the following to you and how old were you? | Type of IPV |
| 1 | Told you who you could see and where you could go and/or regularly checked what you were doing and where you were (by phone or text)? | Psychological |
| 2 | Made fun of you, called your hurtful names, shouted at you? | Psychological |
| 3 | Used physical force such as pushing, slapping, hitting or holding you down? | Physical |
| 4 | Used more severe physical force such as punching, strangling, beating you up, hitting you with an object? | Physical |
| 5 | Pressured you into kissing/touching/something else? | Sexual/psychological |
| 6 | Physically forced you into kissing/touching/something else? | Sexual |
| 7 | Pressured you into having sexual intercourse? | Sexual/psychological |
| 8 | Physically forced you into having sexual intercourse? | Sexual |
| Order | Impact items: How did you feel after they did these things to you? | Dimension |
| 1 | Did any of the above make you feel scared or frightened, or did any partner make you feel frightened in any other way?* | Negative |
| 2 | Upset/unhappy | Negative |
| 3 | Affected my work/studies | Negative |
| 4 | Made me feel sad | Negative |
| 5 | No effect/not bothered | Null |
| 6 | Anxious | Negative |
| 7 | Made me drink more alcohol/take more drugs | Negative |
| 8 | Felt loved/protected/wanted | Positive |
| 9 | Thought it was funny | Positive |
| 10 | Angry/annoyed | Negative |
| 11 | Depressed | Negative |
For each victimisation item, participants indicate the frequency of occurrence—where 0=never, 1=once, 2=a few times, 3=often—and age of occurrence, where 1=under 18, 2=over 18, 3=both. The question prompt included the following definition for partner: ‘By partner we mean anyone you have ever been out with or had a relationship with, long term or short term (including one night stands)’. For each impact item, participants indicated ‘yes’ or ‘no’ as to whether this is how the IPV they experienced affected them.
*This item was asked along with the victimisation items and was therefore measured on the ‘frequency’ response scale.
IPV, intimate partner violence.