The Emotional Abuse Questionnaire (EAQ)- Iran is a 62-item survey designed for individuals to evaluate diverse aspects of emotional abuse within intimate relationships, adapted from the EAQ by Jacobson and Gottman, 1998. The measure contains 4 subscales: isolation, degradation, sexual abuse and property damage.
Geographies Tested: Iran
Populations Included: Female, Male
Age Range: Adults
Isolation
1. I have to do things to avoid my partner’s jealousy
2. My partner tries to control whom I spend time with
3. My partner disapproves of my friends
4. My partner does not believe me when I talk about where I have been
5. My partner complains that I spend too much time with other people
6. My partner accuses me flirting with other people
7. In social situations my partners complains that I ignore him
8. My partner is suspicious that I am unfaithful
9. My partner acts like a detective, looking for clues that I have done something wrong
10. My partner checks up on me
11. My partner keeps me from going places I want to go
12. My partner keeps me from doing things I want to do
13. My partner says I act to seductively
14. My partner keeps me from spending time at the things I enjoy
15. My partner threatens to take the money, car keys, and checkbook if I don’t do as I am told
16. My partner prevents me from leaving the house when I want to
17. My partner disables the phone to prevent my using it
18. My partner disables the car to prevent my using it
19. My partner threatens to pull the phone out of the wall
20. My partner forcibly tries to restrict my movements
21. My partner acts jealous
22. My partner keeps me from spending time with the people I choose
Degradation
23. My partner tries to catch me at inconsistencies to show I am lying
24. My partner tries to convince other people that I am crazy
25. My partner tells other people that there is something wrong with me
26. My partner says things to hurt me out of spite
27. My partner has told me that I am sexually unattractive
28. My partner tells me that I am sexually inadequate
29. My partner insults my religious background or beliefs
30. My partner insults my ethnic background
31. My partner insults my family
32. My partner talks me into doing things that make me feel bad
33. My partners tells me that no one else would ever want me
34. My partner humiliates me in front of others
35. My partner makes me do degrading things
36. My partner questions my sanity
37. My partner tells other people personal information or secrets about me
38. My partner swears at me
39. My partner verbally attacks my personality
40. My partner has insulted me by telling me that I am incompetent
41. My partner ridicules me
42. My partner forces me do things that are against my values
43. My partner questions whether my love is true
44. My partner compares me unfavorable to other partners
45. My partner intentionally does things to scare me
46. My partner threatens me physically during arguments
47. My partner warns me that if I keep doing something violence will follow
48. Our arguments escalate out of control
49. My partner drives recklessly or too fast when he is angry
Sexual Abuse
50. My partner makes me engage in sexual practices I consider perverse
51. In bed my partner makes me do things I find repulsive
52. My partner is not sensitive to me during sex
53. My partner pressures me to have sex after an argument
54. My partner intentionally hurts me during sex
55. I feel pressured to have sex when I don’t want to
56. Even against my will, violence is a part of our sex life
Property Damage
57. My partner has damaged things that I care about
58. My partner threatens to hurt someone I care about
59. My partner intentionally damages things I care about
60. My partner threatens to break things that are valuable to me
61. My partner damages things in our home
62. My partner threatens to destroy my property
Response Options:
Never - 1
Rarely - 2
Occasionally - 3
Very often - 4
Item scores are summed to calculate the total score, ranging from 62 to 248.
Kosar Shafiei Rezvani, N., Zinat Sadat, M., Mohammad Hassan, N., Anita Najafi, C., & Zakiyeh, J. (2024). The psychometric properties of the Persian version of Emotional Abuse Questionnaire. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry, 19(4). https://doi.org/10.18502/ijps.v19i4.16553
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