From: Exposure to family violence from childhood to adulthood
Physical IPV: reporting at least one of the following 9 experiences | |
During the past 5 years, has your spouse/partner or ex-spouse/ex-partner: | |
1 threatened to hit you with his/her fist or anything else that could have hurt you? | |
2 thrown anything at you that could have hurt you? | |
3 pushed, grabbed or shoved you in a way that could have hurt you? | |
4 slapped you? | |
5 kicked you, bit you, or hit you with his/her fist? | |
6 hit you with something that could have hurt you? | |
7 beaten you? | |
8 choked you? | |
9 used or threatened to use a gun or knife on you? | |
Sexual IPV: reporting at least one of the following 2 experiences | |
During the past 5 years, has your spouse/partner or ex-spouse/ex-partner: | |
1 forced you into any unwanted sexual activity, by threatening you, holding you down, or hurting you in some way? | |
2 subjected you to a sexual activity to which you were not able to consent. By this I mean were you drugged, intoxicated, manipulated or forced in other ways than physically? | |
Emotional IPV: reporting at least one of the following 7 experiences | |
Your spouse/partner or ex-spouse/ex-partner: | |
1 tries to limit your contact with family or friends; | |
2 puts you down or calls you names to make you feel bad; | |
3 is jealous and doesn’t want you to talk to other men or women; | |
4 harms, or threatens to harm, someone close to you; | |
5 harms or threatens to harm your pet(s); | |
6 demands to know who you are with and where you are at all times; | |
7 damages or destroys your possessions or property. |