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Psychological elder abuse
— measuring severity levels or potential family conflicts? | | Author(s) | Ana Joao Santos, Baltasar Nunes, Irina Kislaya |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 19, no 6, 2017 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 380-393 |
| Source | http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/jap |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Mental health [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Measurement. |
| Annotation | Psychological elder abuse (PEA) assessment is described with different thresholds. The purpose of this paper was to examine how the prevalence of PEA and the phenomenon's characterisation varied using two different thresholds. Study participants from a cross-sectional population-based study answered three questions regarding PEA. The less strict measure considered PEA as a positive response to any of the three evaluated behaviours. The stricter measure comprised the occurrence, for more than ten times, of one or more behaviours. A multinomial regression compared cases from the two measures with non-victims. Study results showed different prevalence rates and identified perpetrators. The two most prevalent behaviours (ignoring/refusing to speak and verbal aggression) occurred more frequently. Prevalence nearly tripled for `threatening' from the stricter measure to the less strict (one to ten times). More similarities, rather than differences, were found between cases of the two measures. The cohabiting variable differentiated the PEA cases from the two measures; victims reporting abuse more than ten times were more likely to be living with a spouse or with a spouse and children. This study exemplifies how operational definitions can impact empirical evidence and the need for researchers to analyse the effect of the definitional criteria on their outcomes, since dichotomisation between victim and non-victim affects the phenomenon characterisation. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180119208 A |
| Classmark | QNT: D: 4C: 3R |
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