02. The Conflict Tactics Scale and its critics

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Straus, M. A. (2016). Gender-violence, dyadic-violence, and dyadic concordance types: A conceptual and methodological alternative to Hamby (2016) that incorporates both the gendered and dyadic interaction aspects of violence to enhance research and the safety of women. Psychology of Violence, 6(2), 336-346. doi:10.1037/a0039616

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