I'm looking for psychological questionnaires and / or scales to evaluate a group self-defense training for woman with a history of violence (if possible in German, but not required).
I thought about using the
- Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
- Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
- Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS): I only found it in English, but it seemed to be quite handy
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist - Civilian Version (PCL-C) or Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS)
- Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (German Version)
- I also would like to assess self-efficiacy: I found an unpublished Self-defense self-efficacy instrument by Ozer and Bandura (1990). I´m not sure if it is the best instrument, since we want to calculate pre-post differences and the questions might be to drastic (e.g. "The assailant has you lying on your back with him on top of you. How confident are you that you can, as of now: ..."), especially for the baseline assessment. I´m seriously concerned, that this might trigger women with a history of sexual violence.
In a recent study the The General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE) has been used.
I´m thankful for every hint, comment, critic, etc.
Cheers
Dear David,
The study below was designed for women with visual impairment. Please see if this fits the purposes of your study:
Pava, W. S. (1994). Visually impaired persons' vulnerability to sexual and physical assault. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 88(2), 103.
Regarding self-efficacy scale however, I would not recommend utilising Ozer and Bandura's scale if the participants did not have self-defence experience because you would have different source of self-efficacy. This will bias your study because of the confounding extraneous variable that could influence the results of the study. Also, I would not recommend using general self-efficacy scale because self-efficacy scales need to be related to the domain of the study and must be tailored to the particular domain of functioning that is object of interest. Therefore I would strongly suggest to use exercise self-efficacy scales such as these three martial arts studies. Hope this will help :)
Yeh, G. Y., McCathy, E. P., Wayne, P. M., Stevenson, L. W., Wood, M. J., Forman, D., . . . Phillips, R. S. (2011). Tai chi exercise in patients with chronic heart failure: A randomized clinical trial. Archives of Internal Medicine, 17(8), 750-757.
Yeh, G. Y., Wood, M. J., Wayne, P. M., Quilty, M. T., Stevenson, L. W., Davis, R. B., . . . Forman, D. E. (2013). Tai chi patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Congestive Heart Failure, 19(2), 77-84.
Qasim, S., Ravenscroft, J., & Sproule, J (2014). The Effect of Karate Practice on Self-Esteem in Young Adults with Visual Impairment: A Case Study. Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology. Vol 14, 2014, pp. 167-185
Hello David,
Maybe it might be useful for Your work?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12848228
We are currently working at polish adaptation of this scale. Maybe You're interested in cooperation?
Mine should work well for your purposes, and it has been validated with university women. I guess you can find the article on my page. I can send you the instrument. It is based on self-efficacy.
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