A wide body of research has studied what happens when survivors disclose interpersonal violence (Ullman, 2010; Ullman & Filipas, 2001). Less studied is why survivors disclose their experiences. Although research in other disciplines has created measures to assess the reasons for disclosing other concealable identities (Derlega, Winstead, Folk-Barron, & Petronio, 2000), the present study aimed to fill a gap in the existing literature by creating a measure to assess the reasons for disclosing sexual and intimate partner violence. The Reasons for Disclosing Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Scale was created after interviewing survivors and receiving feedback on the measure from crisis center advocates and experts in the field (i.e., content validity). The psychometric properties (i.e., dimensionality and reliability) of the measure were tested with a sample of 274 adult female survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence. The results suggested that reasons for disclosing sexual and intimate partner violence can be broken down into seven factors (e.g., safety and justice, image validation), and that these reasons vary from other concealable identities.

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披露性和亲密伴侣暴力量表的原因的发展和心理评估。

大量研究研究了幸存者透露人际暴力时会发生什么（Ullman，2010； Ullman＆Filipas，2001）。较少研究的是幸存者公开其经历的原因。尽管其他学科的研究已经制定了措施来评估披露其他隐藏身份的原因（Derlega，Winstead，Folk-Barron和Petronio，2000年），但本研究旨在通过创建一种评估措施来填补现有文献中的空白。披露性伴侣和亲密伴侣暴力的原因。揭露性伴侣和亲密伴侣暴力的原因量表是在采访幸存者并从危机中心的拥护者和专家那里收到有关该措施的反馈（即内容有效性）后制定的。心理测量属性（即 维度和可靠性）通过274名成年女性性和亲密伴侣暴力幸存者的样本进行了测试。结果表明，揭露性伴侣和亲密伴侣的暴力的原因可以分为七个因素（例如，安全与正义，形象验证），并且这些原因与其他隐蔽身份不同。