I'm looking to design a study that evaluates the psychological impact of stalking behaviour and/or threats on medical practitioners. Any suggestions for tools with validated psychometric properties would be appreciated.
The process of expert evaluation must be governed by the generation and falsification of hypotheses in relation to the relational dynamics of couples described by those involved in the process (complainant and denounced). In this sense, the expert must start from a hypothesis and the opposite: H1, the reported events correspond to a relational dynamic of violent partner and H2, the reported events do not correspond to a violent relational dynamic. Not following this procedure increases the risk of falling into the confirmatory bias in relation to the starting hypothesis (self-fulfilling prophecy or Pygmalion effect). Following the falsification method, the expert will analyze all the hypotheses formulated from the collection and analysis of the data collected in the forensic psychological evaluation process and that should be designed according to them. For the case that weighs the first of the hypotheses, the expert must specify what type of partner violence is: coercive violence or situational violence (associated with partner conflicts or associated with the management of the couple break) . In the case of the first, you must explain the motivation of the aggressor (violent because of gender or assertion of power or violent compensation, later describe the characteristics of each of these aggressor motivations).