Cuestionario de Abuso en Relaciones de Pareja de Adolescentes (English, “Adolescent Dating Abuse Questionnaire”, Calvete et al., 2021)

Dating abuse behaviours, including physical, sexual and verbal violence online and offline in children and adolescents, 24 Items, 2 Versions, AGes 11-18
  • Populations: Adolescents in Spain
  • Age ranges: 11-18
  • Languages: Spanish
  • Countries: Spain

Items

Subscales:

  • Online directa (Online direct), 8 Items
  • Verbal offline (Offline verbal), 5 Items
  • Control offline (Offline control), 4 Items
  • Control online (Online control), 3 Items
  • Física/sexual (Physical/sexual), 4 Items

 

Items By Subscale:

Online directa (Online direct)

  • Amenazas de hacer daño físicamente a través del móvil o internet (Threatening to physically harm via mobile phone or internet.)
  • Crear un perfil falso de la pareja en una red social para causarle problemas (Creating a fake profile of the partner on a social network to cause problems)
  • Difusión de secretos y/o informaciones comprometidas sobre la pareja en internet (Spreading secrets and/or compromising information about the partner on the Internet)
  • Amenazas a través del móvil o internet de difundir secretos o información comprometida sobre la pareja (Threats via mobile phone or internet to spread secrets or compromising information about the partner)
  • Utilizar el móvil o internet para hacerse pasar por la pareja y crearle problemas (Using the mobile phone or internet to impersonate the partner and create problems)
  • Enviar mensajes insultantes y/o humillantes de la pareja a través del móvil o internet (Sending insulting and/or humiliating messages from the partner via mobile phone or internet)
  • Enviar y/o colgar fotos, imágenes y/o vídeos de contenido sexual sobre la pareja a otras personas sin su permiso (Sending and/or posting photos, images and/or videos with sexual content about the partner to other people without their permission)
  • Extender rumores, chismes y/o bromas a través del móvil o internet sobre la pareja con la intención de ridiculizarla (Spreading rumours, gossip and/or jokes via mobile phone or internet about the partner with the intention of ridiculing them)

Verbal offline (Offline verbal)

  • Insultar (Insulting)
  • Amenazar cara a cara con hacer daño (Threatening to cause them harm)
  • Criticar en público o en privado (Criticizing in public or in private)
  • Echar la culpa de problemas que sucedían o en enfados (Blaming them for problems or blaming them during fits of anger)
  • Despreciar o criticar algo que le gustaba (Criticizing or devaluing something they liked)

Control offline (Offline control)

  • Controlar o tratar de impedir con mis comentarios que hiciera algo que yo no quería (Controlling or trying to prevent partner from doing something)
  • Intentar aislarle de sus amigos (Trying to isolate them from them friends)
  • Desanimarle para que no tenga aficiones no compartidas (Discouraging them from having hobbies that are not shared with the partner)
  • De algún modo dificultar que vaya a algún sitio o que hable con alguien (Making it difficult for them to go somewhere or talk to someone)

Control online (Online control)

  • Utilizar las contraseñas (teléfono, redes sociales, correo) de mi pareja para curiosear sus mensajes y/o contactos sin su permiso (Using partner’s passwords (phone, social networks, email) to look at their messages and/or contacts without their permission)
  • Utilizar el móvil o internet para controlar donde ha estado y con quién (Using the mobile phone or the Internet to check where they has been and with whom)
  • Llamar de forma excesiva para controlar donde estaba y con quién (Calling excessively to check where they were and with whom)

Física/sexual (Physical/sexual)

  • Lanzar algún objeto para hacerle daño (Throwing an object to hurt them)
  • Pegar o tirar del pelo (Hitting or pulling hair)
  • Empujar (Pushing)
  • Besar o tocar sin que la pareja quisiera (Kissing or touching without the partner wanting it)

 

Responses

Items used a 4 point Likert type scale, ranging from 0 = never to 3 = nearly always

Scoring

Score 0 for no acts, and score 1 for the ocurrence of at least one act. 

Citations

  • Calvete, E., Fernández-González, L., Orue, I., Machimbarrena, M., & González-Cabrera, J. (2021). Validación de un cuestionario para evaluar el abuso en relaciones de pareja en adolescentes (CARPA), sus razones y las reacciones. Revista De Psicología Clínica Con Niños y Adolescentes, 8(1), 60-69. https://doi.org/10.21134/rpcna.2021.08.1.8

Team comments

Paper and item translations provided by a native Spanish Speaker on the Good Measure Team

Scoring breakdown

Measure development

  • Significant design input from young people
  • Cognitive interviews with young people
  • Expert input

Validity

  • Unknown: Face validity
  • Green: Convergent validity
  • Green: Construct validity

Reliability

  • Green: Internal consistency
  • Unknown: Test-retest

Ease of use

  • Unknown: Readability

Definitions

Face validity: How well a measure appears to represent the construct it is supposed to be measuring.

Convergent validity: How well a measure correlates with other hypothetically-related measures.

Construct validity: The extent to which a measure reflects the construct it was designed to evaluate.

Internal consistency: The extent to which items in a scale capture aspects of the same construct.

Test-retest: The degree to which measurement scores are consistent over a short period of time (usually 2 weeks).

Readability: The ease with which a reader can understand the questionnaire items.

Key

  • Green: Meets validation criteria
  • Red: Does not meet validation criteria
  • Unknown: Evidence not available

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