Cyber Dating Violence Inventory (Morelli et al., 2018)
- Populations: Adolescents and Young adults
- Age ranges: 13-22
- Languages: English
- Countries: Italy
Items
Please note this scale has two forms: Perpetration and Victimization. Both item lists are presented below as reported.
Subscales:
- Psychological Violence: 6 Items
- Relational Violence: 5 Items
Perpetration
- I wrote things via SMS/mail/Facebook just to make him/her angry
- I brought up something bad that he/she had done in the past via SMS/mail/Facebook
- I threatened to end the relationship via SMS/mail/Facebook
- I accused him/her of flirting with someone else via SMS/mail/Facebook
- I insulted him/her with put downs via SMS/mail/Facebook
- I wrote something via SMS/mail/Facebook to make him/her feel jealous
- I tried to turn his/her friends agianst him/her using SMS/mail/Facebook
- I spread rumors about him/her via SMS/mail/Facebook
- I said things to his/her friends about him/her via SMS/mail/Facebook to turn them against him/her
- I publicly riduculed him/her on Facebook or via SMS/mail
- I threatened to hurt him/her via SMS/mail/Facebook
Victimization
- He/she wrote things via SMS/mail/Facebook just to make me angry
- He/she brought up something bad that I had done in the past via SMS/mail/Facebook
- He/she threatened to end the relationship via SMS/mail/Facebook
- He/she accused me of flirting with someone else via SMS/mail/Facebook
- He/she insulted me with put downs via SMS/mail/Facebook
- He/she wrote something via SMS/mail/Facebook to make me feel jealous
- He/she tried to turn my friends agianst me using SMS/mail/Facebook
- He/she spread rumors about me via SMS/mail/Facebook
- He/she said things to my friends about me via SMS/mail/Facebook to turn them against me
- He/she threatened to hurt me via SMS/mail/Facebook
- He/she publicly riduculed me on Facebook or via SMS/mail
Responses:
Participants reported the frequency of cyber dating abuse over the last year on a 4-point Likert scale (From 0 = Never to 3 = 6 times or more)
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
Mara Morelli, Dora Bianchi, Antonio Chirumbolo & Roberto Baiocco (2018) The cyber dating violence inventory. Validation of a new scale for online perpetration and victimization among dating partners, European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15:4, 464-471, DOI: 10.1080/17405629.2017.1305885
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
