Attitudes Towards Male Dating Violence (Price et al., 1999)

• Populations: Adolescents
• Age ranges: 15-18, 11-20
• Languages: Spanish, English, French
• Countries: Canada; Mexico

Items

Subscales:

• Attitudes Towards Male Psychological Dating Violence
• Attitudes Towards Male Physical Dating Violence
• Attitudes Towards Male Sexual Dating Violence

Items By Subscale

Attitudes Towards Male Psychological Dating Violence

• A guy should not insult his girlfriend.*
• A guy should not tell his girlfriend wht to do*
• A girl should ask her boyfriend first before going out with her friends.
• Relationships always work best when girls please their boyfriends.
• There is never a reason for a guy to threaten his girlfriend*
• Sometimes guys just can’t help but swear at their girlfriends.
• A girl should always change her ways to please her boyfriend.
• A girl should always do what her boyfriend tells her to do.
• A guy does not need to know his girlfriend’s every move*
• There is never a good enough reason for a guy to swear at his girlfriend*
• It is understandable when a guy gets to angry that he yells at his girlfriend.
• It is O.K. for a guy to bad mouth his girlfriend.
• There is never a reason for a guy to yell and scream at his girlfriend*
• A girl should not see her friends if it bothers her boyfriend.
• It is important for a girl to always dress the way her boyfriend wants.

Attitudes Towards Male Physical Dating Violence

• A girl should break up with a guy when he hits her.*
• Some girls deserve to be slapped by their boyfriends
• It is never O.K. for a guy to hit his girlfriend.*
• Sometimes guys just cannot stop themselves from punching girlfriends.
• There is no good reason for a guy to push his girlfriend.*
• Sometimes a guy cannot help hitting his girlfriend when she makes him angry.
• There is no good reason for a guy to slap his girlfriend.*
• Sometimes jealousy makes a guy so crazy that he must slap his girlfriend.
• Girls who cheat on their boyfriends should be slapped.
• Sometimes love makes a guy so crazy that he hits his girlfriend.
• A guy usually does not slap his girlfriend unless she deserves it.
• It is O.K. for a guy to slap his girlfriend if she deserves it.

Attitudes Towards Male Sexual Dating Violence

• When a guy pays on a date, it is O.K. for him to pressure his girlfriend for sex.
• Guys do not own their girlfriends’ bodies.*
• When guys get really sexually excited, they cannot stop themselves from having sex.
• Guys should never get their girlfriends drunk to get them to have sex.*
• A guy should not touch his girlfriend unless she wants to be touched.*
• It is alrights for a guy to force his girlfriend to kiss him.
• Often guys have to be rough with their girlfriends to turn them on.
• To prove her love, it is important for a girl to have sex with her boyfriend.
• A girl who goes into a guy’s bedroom is agreeing to sex.
• It is no big deal to pressure a girl into having sex.
• It is alright to pressure a girl to have sex if she has had sex in the past.
• After a couple is going steady, -the guy should not force his girlfriend to have sex.*

*Items marked * are reverse-coded

Responses:

Items useda a 5 point likert type scale ranging from “strong disagree” to “strongly agree”

Scoring

Increased score indicates increased acceptance of abusive behaviour in individual domains.

Citations

Price, E. L., Byers, E. S., Belliveau, N., Bonner, R., Caron, B., Doiron, D., Greenough, J., Guerette-Breau, A., Hicks, L., Landry, A., Lavoie, B., Layden-Oreto, M., Legere, L., Lemieux, S., Lirette, M., Maillet, G., McMullin, C., Moore, R. (1999). The Attitudes Towards Dating Violence Scales: Development and Initial Validation. Journal of Family Violence, 14(4), 351-375 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022830114772

Hokoda, A., Ramos-Lira, L., Celaya, P., Vilhauer, K., Angeles, M., Ruíz, S., Malcarne, V. L., & Mora, M. D. (2006). Reliability of translated measures assessing dating violence among mexican adolescents. Violence and Victims, 21(1), 117. https://doi.org/10.1891/088667006780927367

Team comments

Validated alongside Attitudes Towards Female Dating Violence (Price et al., 1999).