Interpersonal Abuse
Dimension 541 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Interpersonal Abuse measures the extent to which an expression describes coercive, threatening, humiliating, sexually violating, or physically assaultive behavior directed at another person. It encompasses verbal degradation, intimidation, controlling demands, sexual coercion, and physical violence within close or conflictual relationships.
Minimal Interpersonal Abuse
Expressions activating this band describe isolated, mixed, or ambiguously framed conflict and harm, including rough physical incidents, unwanted sexual pressure, or childhood punishment, without a consistently sustained pattern of coercive abuse.
Mild Interpersonal Abuse
Expressions activating this band describe limited or indirect abusive content, where coercion or physical harm appears intermittently, alongside ordinary disagreement or unrelated material. Abuse is present mainly as specific acts rather than a strongly elaborated pattern of intimidation or domination.
Moderate Interpersonal Abuse
Expressions activating this band describe clear abusive behavior such as insults, shoving, property destruction, ultimatums, threats, weapon use, or forced sexual acts. The abuse is direct and recognizable as intentional domination, intimidation, or assault.
High Interpersonal Abuse
Expressions activating this band describe sustained threatening and degrading conduct, including repeated verbal attacks, threats of abandonment or harm, public humiliation, sexual coercion, and menacing use of weapons. Abuse is experienced as an ongoing climate of fear, pressure, and hostility.
Severe Interpersonal Abuse
Expressions activating this band describe extreme coercion and violence, including serious physical injury, confinement, extortion, relentless threats, humiliating verbal cruelty, and forced compliance with unwanted acts. The abuse is experienced as dangerous, controlling, and acutely harmful.