Cyber Dating Violence Scale [Modified] (Teenage Research Unlimited, 2007)
- Populations: American 7th grade students
- Languages: English
- Countries: United States
Items
Items as reported in Cutbush & Williams (2016)
Item stem:
“How many times in the last 6 months have you done the following things to a boyfriend or girlfriend using a cell phone, email, IM, text messaging, Web chat, a blog, or a networking site like MySpace or Facebook?”
- called them names, put them down, or said really mean things to them
- contacted them when they did not want you to, just to make them mad
- tried to make them afraid
- spread rumors about them
- made them afriad to not respond to you because of what you might do
- showed private or embarrassing pictures / video of them to others
- threatened to hurt them physically
- repeatedly checked up on them to see where they were
Responses not reported
Scoring
“Response options for each of the items within each scale were coded dichotomously: never (0), any (1).” (Cutbush & Williams, 2016)
Citations
Teenage Research Unlimited. (2007) Tech abuse in teen relationships study. Northbook, IL: Teenage Research Unlimited, Inc.
Cutbush, S., & Williams, J. (2016). Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Harassment, and Bullying Among Middle School Youth: Examining Measurement Invariance by Gender. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 26(4), 918–926. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12244
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Unknown: Convergent validity
- Green: Construct validity
Reliability
- Unknown: 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
