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Gaceta Sanitaria
Print version ISSN 0213-9111
Abstract
GARCIA-CARPINTERO, María Ángeles; RODRIGUEZ-SANTERO, Javier and PORCEL-GALVEZ, Ana María. Design and validation of the scale for the detection of violence in courtship in young people in the Sevilla University (Spain). Gac Sanit [online]. 2018, vol.32, n.2, pp.121-128. Epub Dec 07, 2020. ISSN 0213-9111. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2017.09.006.
Objective:
To design and validate a specific instrument to detect exercised and suffered in the relations of young couples in violence.
Method:
Descriptive study of validation clinimetric. Stratified by sex and area of knowledge, which was adopted as inclusion criteria have or have had any relationship. The sample consisted of 447 subjects.
Results:
We obtained the Multidimensional Scale Dating Violence (EMVN), 32 items with three dimensions: physical and sexual assault, behavior control (cyberbullying, surveillance and harassment) and abuse psicoemocional (disparagement and domination), as a victim or as aggressor. No statistically significant differences were found between the violence exerted and the violence suffered, but it was based on sex.
Conclusion:
The EMVN is a valid and reliable scale that measures the different elements of violence in couples of young people and you can suppose a resource for the comprehensive detection of violent behaviors in dating relationships that are established among young people.
Keywords : Dating violence; Intimate partner violence; Cyberbullying; Confirmatory factor analysis; Instrumental study.