Design and Validation of the Scale TDV-VP Teen Dating Violence: Victimisation and Perpetration [Violencia en Parejas Adolescentes: Victimización y Perpetración] for Spanish Speakers

Abstract

Background: This study offers the design and validation of a scale for measuring violence in adolescent couples from the perspective of victimisation and perpetration for young Spanish speakers. Method: Validation study using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis with online self-selected sampling and the participation of 422 subjects who met the requirements of being between 13 and 21 years old and currently or recently having a partner. Results: A scale of victimisation in adolescent partner relationships was obtained with 25 items and a scale of violence perpetration with 22 items. Both scales presented five factors: psychological violence, verbal violence, control, jealousy, and sexual violence. Significant differences were found between men and women in victimisation and perpetration of sexual violence. Conclusions: The Teen Dating Violence—Victimisation and Perpetration (TDV)—VP complies with the reliability and validity indices, constituting a very useful instrument for the detection and measurement of violence in Spanish-speaking adolescent couples in health-promotion work.

Short version of the Multidimensional Scale of Dating Violence (MSDV 2.0) in Spanish‐language: Instrument development and psychometric evaluation

“…This may have conditioned the participants to score lower to reflect their role in the university. These data are consistent with other research conducted among young people and in academic contexts (Boira et al, 2017; Soriano et al, 2021). Another phenomenon in the subscale perpetration is social desirability, where the participants score lower in behaviour which is not tolerated by society (Boira et al, 2017).…”

“…Thus, over the last decade different instruments have been published that measure this phenomenon, encompassing several dimensions, such as the Dating Violence Questionnaire (DVQ; López et al, 2016), Violence in Adolescents' Dating Relationships Inventory (VADRI; Aizpitarte et al, 2017), Measure of Adolescent Relationship Harassment and Abuse (MARSHA; Rothman et al, 2021), Teen Dating Violence: Victimization and Perpetration scale. TDV‐VP Scale (Soriano et al, 2021), Dating Violence Questionnaire‐R (DVQ‐R; Rodríguez‐Díaz et al, 2017), Conflict in adolescent dating relationships inventory short form (CADRI‐S; Fernández et al, 2012) and the Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) in its different versions, modified (CTS‐M; Ronzón et al, 2019) or revised (CTS‐2; Anderson & Leigh, 2011). Most of these instruments have been validated in young university students, since at those ages, young people's first relationships usually begin or are consolidated (Llano‐Suárez et al, 2021).…”

Instruments used to measure dating violence: A systematic review of psychometric properties

“…Most studies presented the results of the measurement properties in relation to content validity, structural validity and internal consistency (Table 2). Only four studies evaluated reliability (Começanha & Maia, 2018;Hokoda et al, 2006;Soriano-Ayala et al, 2021;Wolfe et al, 2001), and 13 studies evaluated the hypotheses testing for construct validity (Al-Modallal et al, 2020;Bledsoe & Sar, 2011;Borrajo et al, 2015;Começanha & Maia, 2018;Demirtas et al, 2018;He et al, 2013;López-Cepero et al, 2021;Muñoz-Rivas et al, 2019;Rey-Anacona et al, 2019;Rothman et al, 2021;Wolfe et al, 2001;Wong et al, 2018;Yakubovich et al, 2019). Regarding the criterion validity, the studies (N = 10) that evaluated this property took a different gold standard: CADRI (Aizpitarte et al, 2017;Emelianchik-Key et al, 2018;Fernández-González et al, 2012;Morelli et al, 2018;Rothman et al, 2021); CTS (Bledsoe & Sar, 2011) and CTS2 (Demirtas et al, 2018;Ureña et al, 2015) as a reference, or population samples that had been victims of violence (Começanha & Maia, 2018;Wong et al, 2018).…”

Prevalence and Predictors of Perpetration of Cyberviolence Against a Dating Partner: A Cross-Cultural Study with Moroccan and Spanish Youth

“…The present study examined cyberviolence perpetration against a romantic partner and dating victimization among youth living in southern Spain who selfidentified as Moroccans or Spaniards. A sample of 1,043 adolescents who reported dating or had dated completed a questionnaire designed and crossculturally validated for this purpose (Soriano-Ayala et al, 2021).…”