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