TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Development of a dating violence assessment tool for late adolescence across three countries: the Violence in Adolescents' Dating Relationships Inventory (VADRI)
JO  - Journal of interpersonal violence
A1  - Aizpitarte, Alazne
A1  - Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar
A1  - Van de Vijver, Fons J. R.
A1  - Perdomo, Maria Cristina
A1  - Galvez-Sobral, J. Andres
A1  - Garcia-Lopez, Eric
SP  - 2626
EP  - 2646
VL  - 32
IS  - 17
N2  - Accurate assessment of dating violence (DV) is crucial for evaluation and intervention planning. However, extant self-report measurement tools of DV do not adequately consider age-, generation-, and culture-specific issues, which are essential for its accurate conceptualization. To address these gaps, we developed the Violence in Adolescents' Dating Relationships Inventory (VADR I: ) and evaluated its psychometric properties. The VADRI was developed based on a qualitative approach for item development through adolescents' individual interviews, focus groups, and experts' judgments, followed by a quantitative approach for tool assessment. Two aspects of DV were addressed: victimization and perpetration. After the necessary cultural and linguistic adaptation of items, the instrument was administered to 466 adolescents from three Spanish-speaking countries: Guatemala, Mexico, and Spain. The items were best represented by a one-factor solution in each country, which suggests that DV is a unidimensional construct combining victimization and perpetration. Analyses of item-level factor weights and differential item functioning were conducted aimed at obtaining information about items that best represented the construct, resulting in a 26-item final version that was cross-culturally equivalent. Convergent validity was supported by positive correlations with the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory, and reliability analyses yielded favorable results (with all Cronbach's α values above.90). We conclude that the VADRI is a valid and reliable instrument for the assessment of DV in various cultural contexts.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-2605
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260515593543
ID  - ref1
ER  -