Acceptance of Dating Violence scale (Foshee et al., 1998)

• Populations: Spanish Adolescents
• Age ranges: 14-18
• Languages: Spanish, English
• Countries: Spain; United States

Items

Spanish Translation of Acceptance of Dating Violence (Foshee et al., 1998).

• It is OK for a boy/girl to hit his/her dating partner if she/he did something to make him/her mad [Está bien que un/a chico/a pegue a su pareja si ésta hizo algo para enfadarle] 
• It is OK for a boy to force a girl to have sex if she got him sexually excited [Es correcto que el chico fuerce a la chica a tener sexo si ella le ha excitado sexualmente] 
• Hitting a dating partner may be OK [Pegar a tu pareja puede estar bien] 
• It is OK for a boy/girl to hit his/her dating partner if she/he insulted him/her in front of friends [Está bien que un/a chico/a pegue a su pareja si ésta le insulta delante de sus amigos] 
• Girls/boys sometimes deserve to be hit by the boys/girls they date [Los/as chicos/as a veces merecen ser pegados por su pareja en sus citas]
• Sometimes boys/girls have to hit their dating partners to get them back under control [A veces los/as chicos/as tienen que pegar a sus parejas para mantenerlas bajo su control] 
• It is OK for a boy/girl to hit her/his dating partner if she/he hit him/her first [Es correcto que el/la chico/a pegue a su pareja si ésta le ha pegado primero] 
• It is OK for a boy to force a girl to have sex if he paid for all the costs of a date [Está bien que el chico fuerce a la chica a tener sexo si él ha pagado todos los gastos de la cita] 
• A girl/boy who makes her/his dating partner jealous on purpose, deserves to be hit [El/la chico/a que pone celosa/o a su pareja a propósito merece ser pegado/a] 
• I think it is very wrong to force a dating partner to have sex on a date [Creo que está muy mal forzar a tu pareja a tener sexo en una cita]

Note: Item 10 was deleted from the final version of the scale because it did not show adequate psychometric properties

Responses:

Below is a list of sentences that a boy/girl can use to describe him/herself. Please read each sentence and decide how accurately it describes you for the past year. Choose and circle the score from 1 to 6 that best describes you. When you are not sure, answer what you feel.

[A continuación encontrarás una lista de frases que un chico/a puede utilizar para describirse a sí mismo/a. Por favor, lee cada frase y decide el grado de exactitud con que te describe durante el último año. Escoge y rodea con un círculo la puntuación desde 1 a 6 que mejor te describe. Cuando no estés seguro/a, contesta lo que sientes]” (Fernández-González, Calvete, Orue, 2017)

1. Completely untrue [Totalmente falso]
2. Most times untrue [La mayoría de veces falso]
3. More untrue than true [Más falso que verdadero]
4. More true than untrue [Más verdadero que falso]
5. Most times true [La mayoría de veces verdadero]
6. Completely true [Me describe perfectamente]

(Fernández-González, Calvete, Orue, 2017)

Scoring

“Item responses are averaged across all items to create an ordinal outcome score ranging between 1 and 4 with higher scores indicating greater ADV.” (McMillan et al., 2024)

Citations

• Fernández-González, L., Calvete, E., & Orue, I. (2017). The Acceptance of Dating Violence scale (ADV): Psychometric properties of the Spanish version. Psicothema, 29(2), 241-246. https://www.psicothema.com/pdf/4390.pdf
• Foshee, V. A., Bauman, K. E., Arriaga, X. B., Helms, R. W., Koch, G. G., & Linder, G. F. (1998). An evaluation of Safe Dates, an adolescent dating violence pre-vention program. American Journal of Public Health, 88(1), 45–50. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9584032/
• McMillan, I. F., Langhinrichsen-Rohling, J., Mennicke, A., & Montanaro, E. (2024). Attitude is everything: Examining acceptance of violence items for differential item functioning across heterosexual and sexual minority youth. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 39(23-24), 4828-4851. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38581249/