Introduction and validation of the Modern Adolescent Dating Violence Attitude (MADVA) scale: A contemporary tool for assessing adolescent attitudes towards dating violence in offline and online environments
The study developed and validated the Modern Adolescent Dating Violence Attitude (MADVA) scale, examining young people’s attitudes towards online and offline variants of adolescent dating violence and abuse (ADVA). Data were collected among 2011 adolescents from England, aged 10–25 (M 15.72 years). Dimensionality and construct validity of the MADVA was investigated using traditional Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Results indicate a six-factor model (Attitudes towards: Sexual Abuse-Online; Sexual Abuse-Offline; Psychological Abuse-Online; Psychological Abuse-Offline; Physical Abuse-Offline; Controlling Behaviour-Offline). Excellent composite reliability and differential predictive validity were observed for all six subscales. The MADVA scale enables users to better evaluate ADVA prevention-programmes.
Funding
None in Three(Ni3) - A Centre for the Development, Application, Research and Evaluation of Prosocial Games for the Prevention of Gender-based Violence
UK Research and Innovation
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History
School
- Social Sciences and Humanities
Department
- Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy
Published in
International Journal of Law, Crime and JusticePublisher
ElsevierVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2024-11-18ISSN
1756-0616eISSN
1876-763XPublisher version
Language
- en
