Dating Violence Questionnaire- Revised (Rodríguez-Díaz et al., 2017)

• Populations: adolescents and young adults
• Age ranges: 15-26
• Languages: Spanish
• Countries: Spain

Items

Subscales:

• Physical: 4 items
• Sexual: 4 items
• Humiliation: 4 items
• Coercion: 4 items
• Detachment: 4 items

Please note: validation paper provides all items from original scale (42 items, 8 subscales) AND revised version.  All items from both scales are reported here for convenience; items in bold were used in the 20 item scale.

• ‘‘Tests’’ your love, setting traps to find out if you are cheating (Pone a prueba tu amor, poniéndote trampas para comprobar si le enga˜nas, le quieres o si le eres fiel)
• You feel compelled to have sex as long as you don’t have to explain why (Te sientes obligada/o a mantener sexo con tal de no dar explicaciones de por qué)
• Mocks women or men in general (Se burla acerca de las mujeres u hombres en general)
• Has stolen from you (Te ha robado) 
• Has beaten you (Te ha golpeado)
• Is a good student, but is always late at meetings, does not fulfil his/her promises, and is irresponsible (Es cumplidor/a con el estudio, pero llega tarde a las citas, no cumple lo prometido y se muestra irresponsable)
• Humiliates you in public (Te humilla en público)
• Refuses to have sex with you or give you affection to express his/her anger/annoyance (Te niega sexo o afecto como forma de  enfadarse)
• Talks to you about relationships he/she imagines you have (Te habla sobre relaciones que imagina que tienes)
• Insists on touching you in ways and places which you don’t like and don’t want (Insiste en tocamientos que no te son
  agradables y que tú no quieres)
• Believes that the opposite sex is inferior, and says that its members should obey men (or women) (Piensa que los del otro sexo
  son inferiores y manifiesta que debenobedecer a los hombres (o mujeres), o no lo dice, pero actúa de acuerdo con este principio)
• Takes car keys or money away from you (Te quita las llaves del coche o el dinero)
• Has slapped your face, pushed or shaken you (Te ha abofeteado, empujado o zarandeado)
• Does not acknowledge any responsibility regarding the relationship or what happens to both of you (No reconoce
  responsabilidad alguna sobre la relación de pareja, ni sobre lo que os sucede a ambos)
• Criticizes you, underestimates the way you are, or humiliates your self-esteem (Te critica, subestima tu forma de ser, o
  humilla tu amor propio)
• Refuses to give you support or affection as a punishment (Te niega apoyo, afecto o aprecio como forma de castigarte)
• Threatens to commit suicide or hurt himself/herself if you leave him/her (Amenaza con suicidarse o hacerse da˜no si lo/la dejas)
• Has treated you as a sexual object (Te ha tratado como un objeto sexual)
• Has ridiculed or insulted women or men as a group (Ha ridiculizado o insultado a las mujeres u hombres como grupo)
• Has thrown blunt instruments at you (Ha lanzado objetos contundentes contra ti)
• Has hurt you with an object (Te ha herido con algún objeto)
• Imposes rules on the relationship (days, times, types of outings), at his/her exclusive convenience (Impone reglas sobre la relación
  (días, horarios, tipos de salidas), de acuerdo con su conveniencia exclusiva)
• Ridicules your way of expressing yourself (Ridiculiza tu forma de expresarte)
• Threatens to abandon you (Te amenaza con abandonarte)
• Has physically kept you from leaving (Te ha retenido para que no te vayas)
• You feel forced to perform certain sexual acts (Te sientes forzado/a a realizar determinados actos sexuales)
• Has made fun of or discredited your feminity/masculinity (Ha bromeado o desprestigiado tu condición de mujer/hombre)
• Made you go into financial debt (Te ha hecho endeudar)
• Damages or destroys objects that mean a lot to you (Estropea objetos muy queridos por ti)
• Has ignored your feelings (Ha ignorado tus sentimientos)
• Criticizes, insults you, or yells at you (Te critica, te insulta o grita)
• Stops talking to you or disappears for several days, without any explanation, to show their annoyance (Deja de hablarte o
  desaparece por varios días, sin dar explicaciones, como manera de demostrar su enfado)
• Manipulates you with lies (Te manipula con mentiras)
• Doesn’t consider your feelings about sex (No ha tenido en cuenta tus sentimientos sobre el sexo)
• You feel he/she unjustly criticizes your sexuality (Sientes que critica injustamente tu sexualidad)
• Insults you in the presence of friends or relatives (Te insulta en presencia de amigos o familiares)
• Has refused to help you when you were in real need (Ha rehusado ayudarte cuando de verdad lo necesitabas)
• Invades your space (listening to a loud music when you are studying, listening your phone calls. . .) (Invade tu espacio (escucha la radio muy fuerte cuando estás estudiando, te interrumpe cuando estás solo/a. . .) o privacidad (abre cartas dirigidas a ti, escucha tus conversaciones telefónicas. . .)
• Forces you to undress even if you don’t want to (Te fuerza a desnudarte cuando tu no quieres)
• Has ridiculed or insulted your beliefs, religion or social class (Ha ridiculizado o insultado tus creencias, religión o clase social)
• Ridicules or insults you for the ideas you uphold (Te ridiculiza o insulta por las ideas que mantienes)
• You feel you can’t argue with him/her because he/she is almost always annoyed with you (Sientes que no puedes discutir con él/ella, porque está casi siempre enfadado/a contigo)

Responses:

never-0 to all of the time-4

Scoring

Although the original questionnaire provides both a measure of perceived victimization (i.e. frequency) and a measure of perceived disturbance, we relied in this study only on the frequency of the victimization scores

Citations

Rodríguez-Díaz, F. J., Herrero, J., Rodríguez-Franco, L., Bringas-Molleda, C., Paíno-Quesada, S. G., & Pérez, B. (2017). Validation of Dating Violence Questionnarie-R (DVQ-R). International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 17(1), 77–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2016.09.001