Smith M D
Department of Sociology, York University, North York, Ontario, Canada.
Violence Vict. 1987 Fall;2(3):173-87.
A telephone survey on the physical abuse of women by a male intimate was conducted with a representative sample of 604 Toronto women. Results showed an annual incidence rate of 14.4% and a prevalence rate of 25.0%, based on the Conflict Tactics Scales as the measure of abuse. Several additional measures increased the prevalence rate to 36.4%. These estimates, which are much higher than those obtained in a similar survey conducted two years earlier in Toronto, appear to be the result mainly of improved methodological procedures in the present study.
对604名多伦多女性的代表性样本进行了一项关于男性亲密伴侣对女性身体虐待的电话调查。结果显示，以冲突策略量表作为虐待衡量标准，年发病率为14.4%，患病率为25.0%。几项额外的衡量标准将患病率提高到了36.4%。这些估计值远高于两年前在多伦多进行的类似调查所得出的结果，这似乎主要是本研究中改进的方法程序所致。
