Validation of an Extended Violent Ideations Scale to Measure Both Non-Sexual and Sexual Violent Ideations (The VIS-X)

Urruela, Carlota; Booth, Tom; Eisner, Manuel; Ribeaud, Denis; Murray, Aja Louise

doi:10.5167/uzh-221379

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Urruela, C., Booth, T., Eisner, M., Ribeaud, D., & Murray, A. L. (2023). Validation of an Extended Violent Ideations Scale to Measure Both Non-Sexual and Sexual Violent Ideations (The VIS-X). European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 39(3), 157–164. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000698

Abstract

A previous study developed and validated a multi-item instrument for the assessment of violent ideations, the “Violent Ideations Scale” (VIS). However, the final 12-item scale contained no items relating to sexual violence and was thus lacking an important dimension of violence. The current study explores an expansion of the original VIS to include ideations of sexual violence and investigates the psychometric properties of this new version: The Violent Ideations Scale-Extended (VIS-X). The VIS-X was completed by participants in the l