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Violência de gênero. Testando um modelo: espontaneidade, bem-estar psicológio e depressão

 

Gender violence. Testing a model of assumptions: spontaneity, psychological well-being and depression

 

 

Ines Testoni^I; Alessandra Armenti^II; Lucia Ronconi^III; Michael Wieser^IV; Adriano Zamperini^V ; Sibylla Verdi^VI ; Chris Evans^VII

^I Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education & Applied Psychology (FISPPA), Section of Applied Psychology, University of Padua (Italy)
^II phd Candidate in Social and Personality Psychology, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education & Applied Psychology (FISPPA), Section of Applied Psychology, University of Padua (Italy)
^III Statistical Consultant and Analyst of University of Padua (Italy)
^IV Asst.-Professor. Mag. Dr., Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt Wien Graz, Bologna process coordinator, psychodramatist, psychologist (Austria)
^VAssociate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education & Applied Psychology (FISPPA), Section of Applied Psychology, University of Padua (Italy).
^VI Editorial & Research Consultant, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education & Applied Psychology (FISPPA), Section of Applied Psychology, University of Padua (Italy)
^VIIConsultant Medical Psychotherapist and Professor, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Mandala Centre, Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham (UK)

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RESUMO

Este estudo é parte de uma exploração da violência de gênero. Verifica se a espontaneidade está correlacionada com o bem-estar psicológico em amostras de estudantes universitários italianos e austríacos, n = 166 e 146, respectivamente, usando três questionários de autorrelato: Inventário de Avaliação de Espontaneidade - revisado (SAI-R); a Medida de Resultado (CORE-OM) e Inventário de Depressão de Beck (BDI - II). Os resultados mostraram boa consistência interna para todas as medidas e correlações fortes e estatisticamente significantes entre as medidas nas direções esperadas em ambos os países. Esses achados em amostras não clínicas são congruentes com o modelo teórico e definem o terreno para uso futuro em amostras clínicas.

Palavras-chave: Violência de gênero. Espontaneidade. Depressão. Bem-estar psicológico. Psicodrama.

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ABSTRACT

The study forms part of an exploration of gender violence. Using a sample of Italian and Austrian university students (n=166 and 146, respectively), it examines whether spontaneity is correlated with psychological well-being. Three self-reporting questionnaires were applied: the Revised Spontaneity Assessment Inventory (SAI-R); the CORE-OM Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI -II). The results showed good internal consistency for all scores and strong and statistically significant correlations between the measures as expected in both countries. These findings with non-clinical samples are congruent with the theoretical model and set the ground for future use with clinical samples.

Keywords: Gender violence. Spontaneity. Depression. Psychological well-being. Psychodrama.

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INTRODUCTION

Gender-based violence within families (domestic violence) occurs across all social classes, geographical locations and periods of human history (WHO, 2002; 2010). Only an active role for women can ensure achievement of a shared awareness that a change in the female condition is necessary (HAMEL, 2007; HAMEL; NICHOLLS, 2007; STRAUS , 1993; STRAUS ; GELLES ; STEINMETZ , 1980).

Many studies have illustrated the psychosocial dimensions of our male dominated world and how cultural frameworks support female victimization (COOK, 1993; FLOOD; PEASE , 2009). There are relatively few investigations of women's responsibilities for the social conditioning that prepares them to submit to violence. The proposed intervention, EMPOWER will consider the mother-daughter relationship with the hypothesis that where cultures create supremacy and power for men, attitudes leading to the subordination and victimization of women are transmitted across generations through the mother-daughter relationship (Kaur ; Garg , 2010; Zaidi et al., 1989). EMPOWER will focus on sex trade trafficking: the collective abuse of women trafficked for sexual exploitation. The aim is to intervene where trafficking of women and exploitation is rife working with women who have been victims of domestic violence to help them become aware of the history of their condition and achieve resiliency in their lives and effective selfdetermination by breaking limits imposed by intergenerational relations. EMPOWER uses Jacob Levi Moreno's Psychodrama (1947) to help the victim reconstruct her life experiences through drama. This technique, an ecologically-integrated model, emphasizes the "changing role" which is a key element for the promotion of resiliency. The goal is to provide victims an environment for psychological development and promote in them a new self-representation by which they are able to break free from a fate of oppression.

Crucially EMPOWER will use both quantitative and qualitative evaluation. This paper reports whether questionnaires for the quantitative evaluation are reliable, valid and fit for this purpose.

 

HYPOTHESIS

The initial assumption is based on Moreno's (1947) understanding of spontaneity and creativity conditions created by the capacity for positive thinking the individual reaches by recognizing their own emotions and overcoming past stereotyped behaviour. As a form of intrinsic motivation that precedes the process of taking action (Kipper; Shemer, 2006), spontaneity is closely related to personal well-being. Davelaar; Araujo; Kipper (2008) and Steitzel; Hughey (1994), found that spontaneity is a necessary precursor to feeling joy and deep satisfaction in line with Maslow (1970) who considered the capacity to be spontaneous an indispensable condition in order to reach self-realization.

The purpose of this report is to test the internal consistency/reliability of three chosen measures, SAI-R, CORE-OM and BDI-II; to see if their cross-sectional correlations and gender/culture score differences fit the above model of the importance of spontaneity and provide significant validation of the measures and model.

 

METHOD

Measures

SAI-R (Spontaneity Assessment Inventory - Revised)

The SAI-R was chosen given the significance of spontaneity in psychodramatic techniques and its apparently excellent psychometric properties. The SAI-R was designed to support empirical study of psychodrama and the idea of measuring spontaneity goes back to Moreno (1947). The first measure of spontaneity involved creating a variety of circumstances in which the protagonist was asked to identify him/ herself and improvise responses. Observers watched the improvisations and evaluated their appropriateness, creativity and speed of response providing what Moreno termed the "quotient of spontaneity". Though not scientifically supported nor very practical, this remained the only measure of spontaneity for decades. The SAI-R was provides a more usable and evaluated instrument measuring spontaneity.

The SAI-R is the revised version of the original SAI (CHRISTOFORTOU; KIPPER , 2006; KIPPER ; SHEMER , 2006). Like the SAI, the SAI-R poses one question: "How strongly do you have these feelings and thoughts during a typical day?" followed by a list of 18 items, some adjectives and others phrases describing different feelings and thoughts; for-example: "creative", "happy", "excited", "uninhibited", "satisfied". The participants respond on a five-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 (very weak) to 5 (very strong). The SAI-R's reported internal consistency is .79 (Cronbach's alpha; KIPPER; SHEMER, 2006).

Kipper and Shemer (2006) reviewed correlations between spontaneity and personal well-being and between spontaneity and stress (numerous studies have linked stress with low levels of well-being, e.g. BENGSTON; REEDY; GORDON , 1985; CATZ ; FELTON ; MCCLURE , 2002). Their sample was 105 people (38 men and 67 women) aged between 18 and 69 years. SAIR-R scores ranged from 18 to 90 (M = 66.4, SD = 10.2) with no statistically significant differences between the mean scores of women and men with no significant correlations with either age or level of education. They found a positive correlation between spontaneity and well-being, and a negative correlation with stress supporting the ideas of Moreno that spontaneity plays a significant role in mental health.

 

CORE-OM (Clinical Outcomes for Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure)

The CORE-OM is a 34 item questionnaire developed to assess the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions (EVANS et al., 2002) and used in the United Kingdom and other countries as routine clinical assessment tool in primary care and specialist settings and in largescale population and research studies (BARKHAM; CULVERWELL ; SPINDLER; TWIGG, 2005; EVANS , CONNELL et al., 2003). It is complemented by the CORE-A (Assessment), a data gathering form filled out by the therapist at initial assessment end of therapy.

Each of the 34 CORE-OM items is scored by the participant on a 5-point Likert scale from "not at all" to "most or all the times" for how frequently they experienced that state during the last week. The items provide a mean score and four domain scores of well-being, problems, functioning and risk (4, 12, 12 and 6 items per domain respectively). The first three domains fit the "stages of change" model which suggests psychotherapies proceed sequentially, starting with subjective well-being, then remission of problems/symptoms and finally an improvement in overall functioning (Howard et al., 1993). However, the measure does not require therapy follows that model. About half the CORE-OM items are low intensity, e.g. "I felt tense, anxious or nervous," while the remainder are high intensity, e.g. "I felt panic or terror"; 25% of the items are positive statements with reversed scores. The score can be pro-rated if not more than three items are missing: higher scores indicate more problems. A score for "all non-risk items" is also suggested based on the finding in clinical and non-clinical samples in English and in other languages, that the risk items show rather low correlation with the other items (see e.g. LYNE, BARRETT, EVANS; BARKHAM, 2006).

Given its simplicity the CORE-OM is a valuable tool for testing psychological well-being and for verifying the success of the psychodrama intervention in the target group and for the EMPOWER study. One key quality of the CORE-OM is that it is copyleft: i.e. the copyright is owned by CORE System Trust who don't allow changes, including translations, without their approval; however, they make no charge for reproduction of the measure on paper making it essentially zero cost to use by clinicians and researchers. Two 18 item short forms that can be used alternately to avoid memory effects in repeated use exist (BARKHAM et al., 2001) as does a 10 item short form (BARKHAM et al., 2012). The CORE-OM and its short forms have been translated into 24 languages (e.g. GAMPE, BIESCAD,BALÚNOVÁ-LABANICOVÁ, TIMUL'ÁK, & EVANS, 2007; PALMIERI et al., 2009; ELFSTRÖM et al., 2012; SALES, MOLEIRO, EVANS & ALVES, 2012) including British Sign Language (ROGERS, YOUNG, LOVELL, & EVANS, 2013).

 

BDI-II (Beck Depression Inventory - second version)

The BDI-II is a questionnaire measuring the severity of depression in adults (and adolescents over 12 years of age). It designed to assess diagnostic criteria for depressive disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM-IV, American Psychiatric Association, 1994).

The original BDI (BECK et al., 1987) consisted of 21 items based on typical symptoms and behaviours frequently reported by depressed psychiatric patients and rarely by non-depressed psychiatric patients. The BDI-II includes a series of changes: the first four items "Weight Loss", "Change of body image", "Somatic concern" and "Working difficulties" have been replaced by new items "Agitation", "A sense of futility," "Concentration" and "Energy loss" considered more representative of most severe depression. The items '"Insomnia" and "Loss of appetite" have been amended to indicate their reduction or increase, and called respectively" Sleep" and "Appetite". Finally "Social Withdrawal" is replaced by "Loss of interest". Another change is that the time frame used in the BDI-II has been extended to two weeks in accordance with the DSM-IV criteria. The BDI-II (BECK at al., 1996) has 21 statements about symptoms and depressive attitudes each followed by four response options, from 0 to 3, indicating how much that symptom or behaviour has increased or decreased over the past two weeks, where a value of 0 indicates that there has been no change. The total score is calculated by summing scores with the maximum score of 63.

The Italian version of the BDI-II (GHISI , BAPTIST, FLEBUS , MONTANO , SANAVIO & SICA , 2006) was tested in 723 college students: internal consistency was .80 (Cronbach's Alpha) with an average score of 8.2 (SD = 5.6) and no significant correlations were found with age (r = - .35); however, women had higher mean score (M = 9.5, SD = 5.5) than men (M = 6.9, SD = 5.4).

The BDI-II was chosen as a referential measure. By contrast with the CORE-OM, for the BDI-II a reproduction fee is charged for all use of the measure and aggressively prosecuted by the company owning the copyright.

- Procedure

Participants were administered the three instruments (BDI-II, SAI-R and CORE-OM) individually and anonymously. The questionnaire was delivered to the researchers by the participants immediately after finishing it. The questionnaire included a socio-demographic form (age, gender, occupation) together with the three assessment tools.

Statistical analyses were conducted in SPSS and R (version 2.15.3; R Core Team, 2013). The issues at stake are almost all about how strong the parameters of reliability and convergent validity are, not whether they are statistically significant or not. Parameters that were merely statistically significant in samples of this size would only indicate some systematic relationship, not whether the instruments were fit for purpose or not. Generally, 95% confidence intervals (CIs, e.g. GARDNER; ALTMAN, 1986) are reported around observed parameters to indicate the precision of estimation of population values. Cronbach's alpha (CRONBACH , 1951) is used to indicate internal reliability/consistency and Feldt's methods are used to estimate CIs around Cronbach's alpha (Feldt; Woodruff ; Salih , 1987).

 

RESULTS

- Participants

A total of 312 Italian and Austrian University students participated: 156 females and 156 males aged between 18 and 24 (M=20.9 years; SD=1.39). The Italian sample consisted of 83 females and 83 males aged 19 to 24 years (M=21.0 years; SD=1.38) and the Austrian sample consisted of 73 females and 73 males aged between 18 and 24 years (M=20.7; SD=1.38). All took part voluntarily with no payment for participation.

 

INTERNAL RELIABILITY OF THE MEASURES SAI-R

For the Italian sample Cronbach's Alpha for the SAI-R was .81 (95% CI .76 to .85) congruent with .79 reported by (Kipper; Shemer , 2006). The average score on the SAI-R was 57.1 (SD = 8.1); a value that is less than that reported by Kipper; Shemer (M = 66.4, SD = 10.2).

For the Austrian sample, the Cronbach's alpha was .90 (.90 to .93) higher than both the value in our Italian data and that reported by Kipper; Shemer (2006).The mean total score was 63.7 (SD = 9.8) somewhat smaller than reported in the literature but greater than the score in the Italian sample. No significant differences by gender were found, contrasting with the finding in the Italian data.

 

CORE-OM

For the Italian and Austrian samples Table 1 shows the Cronbach's alpha values for each with earlier published UK (EVANS et al., 2002) and Italian (PALMIERI et al. 2009) values.

 

 

The alpha values from these Italian data are smaller than the UK values from larger and more diverse samples; all, with the possible exception of the risk score, are acceptable and the overall and non-risk alpha values are excellent. In general values are also slightly lower than reported by Palmieri et al. (2009) for Italian data though the difference is only statistically significant for the risk score. The Austrian values are also smaller than the UK referential data (internal reliabilities for the German translation have not been published yet). Again, the differences are most marked for the risk score and the overall and non-risk scores show excellent internal reliabilities.

 

BDI-II

For the Italian sample, alpha was .87 (95% CI .83 to .89), greater than .80 reported by Ghisi et al. (2006). For the Austrian sample, the internal consistency was .81 (95% CI .76 to .85). These are very acceptable values.

 

CONVERGENT VALIDITY CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SCORES

One general hypothesis was that SAI-R spontaneity would correlate negatively with distress and psychopathology scores on the CORE-OM and BDI-II. Another general hypothesis was that the correlations between the CORE-OM scores and the BDI-II, the more expensive measure, would show strong convergent validity.

Tables 2 and 3report Pearson correlation coefficients showing SAI-R scores negatively correlated with CORE-OM total and domain scores and with the BDI-II.

These correlations between SAI-R and CORE-OM scores are similar to those reported by Kipper; Hundal (2005) for the SAI against the Friedman Well-Being Scale (FWBS) (FRIEDMAN, 1994) and those by Kipper; Shemer (2007) for the SAI-R and FWBS regarding the relationship between measures of spontaneity and psychological well-being

 

 

The findings are very similar for both countries. The overall relationship between the three measures when data are pooled across both countries is shown in Table 4.

 

 

 

GENDER AND COUNTRY EFFECTS

As EMPOWER considers gendered violence and its location in societal and cultural norms we explored gender effects by country using 2x2 ANOVAs (Country x Gender).

For the SAI-R the interaction (gender-country) was not statistically significant (F (1, 306) = 3.37, p = .068) meaning we can interpret simple effects of gender and country separately: the Italian mean scores were lower than the Austrian (F (1, 306) = 43.6, p <.0001). Figure 1 gives a notched boxplot of all the data. It can be seen that there is one outlying high (male) Italian SAI-R value but this is lower than the limits for the Austrian men and women. The horizontal reference line is the overall median and the notched "waists" on the boxes show the CIs for the medians for each group showing that both the Austrian men and women have statistically significantly elevated median scores compared to the overall median.

 

 

On the BDI-II (figure 2) there is a strongly statistically significant interaction (F (1, 308) = 13.2, p =.0003), but also a clear difference between countries (F (1, 308) = 16.3, p = .003) largely confined to the women: analysing each gender separately significant differences are observed between the two countries only for women than men (Mann-Whitney p <.0001 for women cf. p = .38 for men; t-test p<.0001 vs. p=.70).

 

 

For the CORE-OM (figure 3) there is also a significant interaction (F (1, 308) = 5.10, p = .025) though rather less strong than for the BDI-II. The differences between the countries were more marked for women (Mann-Whitney p <.0001 vs. p = .02, women vs. men and t-test p<.0001 vs. .07).

 

 

DISCUSSION

The study aimed to verify the reliability and validity of the measures for the EMPOWER study. The reliabilities were acceptable and broadly congruent with other reported data. The convergent validity of COREOM and BDI-II scores were good and their correlations with the SAI-R support theories about the importance of spontaneity for personal wellbeing replicating findings from other samples and measures (Kipper ; SHEMER , 2006; DAVELAAR et al., 2008; STEIZEL et al., 1994; KIPPER et al., 2005).

SAI-R scores were statistically significantly lower for Italy than for Austria, for both men and women. Similarly, Italian women score higher in levels of general malaise than Italian men and statistically significant country differences on both the BDI-II and CORE-OM were mainly found in the women. Though much more work is needed to show causality, this is in line with Italy being among European countries with a high concentration of mafia (Ministry of Interior, 2007) and a strong traditional culture that keeps women, through maternal education, tied to familial duties and/or emotional sexual role (TESTONI et al., 2009).

There are cautionary notes: the sample sizes are respectable but as endorsement of significant risk problems is low in non-clinical samples reliability figures for the risk scores are based on very low numbers of people with problems so probably underestimate the reliability of the score. The samples are all students with restricted ranges of age and life experience and it will be important to see if similar gender and country effects emerge in larger and more diverse samples.

In conclusion, this work supports the choice of quantitative instruments for the EMPOWER study and supports the initial hypothesis that higher spontaneity is associated with lower distress and psychopathology.

 

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Endereço para correspondência
Ines Testoni
University of Padua (Italy)
via Venezia 8 35131 - Padova (Italy)
e-mail: ines.testoni@unipd.it

Alessandra Armenti
University of Padua (Italy)
via Venezia 8 35131 - Padova (Italy)
e-mail: alessandra.armenti@unipd.it

Lucia Ronconi
University of Padua (Italy)
via Venezia 8 35131 - Padova (Italy)
e-mail: l.ronconi@unipd.it

Michael Wieser
Universitaetsstr. 65-67 9020
Klagenfurt am Woerthersee (Austria)
e-mail: michael.wieser@aau.at

Adriano Zamperini
University of Padua (Italy)
via Venezia 8 35131 - Padova (Italy)
e-mail: adriano.zamperini@unipd.it

Sibylla Verdi
University of Padua (Italy)
via Venezia 8 35131 - Padova (Italy)
e-mail: sibylla.verdi@gmail.com

Chris Evans
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust,
Mandala Centre, Gregory Boulevard,
Nottingham, NG7 6LB (UK)
e-mail: chris@psyctc.org

Recebido: 12/03/2013
Aceito: 05/04/2013