ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to expand the research initiated by Macmillan and Gartner by examining what different forms of patterns of violence the authors can find using data from a nationally representative survey, conducted in Spain, which relied on the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS2). In using the CTS2, the authors can classify respondents according to the degree to which they suffer different forms of abusive behaviour, as Macmillan and Garner did. Their primary goal is to use the CTS2 information collected to group the respondents in ways that better differentiate patterns of abuse and, reflect in a more appropriate way the epidemiology of intimate partner violence in the general population. They believe it is necessary to take a more refined approach to the measurement of intimate partner violence than that suggested by the traditional scoring rules of the CTS.
