Dating Violence Questionnaire (López-Cepero et al., 2016)

• Populations: Chilean adolescent population
• Age ranges: 14-24 years
• Languages: Spanish, English
• Countries: Chile; United States

Items

Subscales, listed with item counts and (cronbach’s Alpha) due to variance in internal consistency:

• Detachment 7 (.72)
• Humiliation 7 (.86)
• Coercion 6 (.66)
• Emotional Punishment 5 (.58)
• Gender-based Punishment 5 (.72)
• Sexual Punishment 6 (.80)
• Physical Punishment 5 (.77)
• Instrumental Punishment 5 (.55 [extended version .73])

 DVQ Chilean item / English version (López-Cepero, Fabelo, Rodríguez-Franco, & Rodríguez-Díaz, 2016); relevant subscale

• Pone a prueba tu amor, tendiéndote trampas para comprobar si le engañas, le quieres o si le eres fiel. / Tests your love, setting traps to find out if you are cheating; C
• Te sientes obligada/o a tener sexo (caricias, tocamientos) con tal de no dar explicaciones de por qué a tu pareja. / You feel compelled to have sex as long as you don’t have to explain why; S
• Se burla o ríe de las mujeres u hombres en general (Si es hombre se ríe de las mujeres y si es mujer de los hombres). / Mocks women or men in general; GB
• Te ha robado / Has stolen from you; I
• Te ha golpeado / Has beaten you; Ph
• Es responsable con el estudio, trabajo y amigos, pero llega tarde a vuestras citas, no cumple lo que te promete y se muestra irresponsable / Is a good student, but is always late at meetings, does not fulfill his or her promises, and is irresponsible; D
• Te humilla en público / Humiliates you in public ; H
• Te niega sexo o cariño como forma de mostrar su enfado / Refuses to have sex with you or give you affection to express his or her anger/annoyance; EP
• Te habla sobre relaciones que imagina que tienes con otras personas / Talks to you about relationships he or she imagines you have; C
• Insiste en tocamientos que no te son agradables y que tú no quieres / Insists on touching you in ways and places which you don’t like and don’t want; S
• Piensa o actúa como si los del otro sexo fueran inferiores / Believes that the opposite sex is inferior, and says that its members should obey men (or women); GB
• Te quita cosas importantes (las llaves del auto, de la moto, el celular, el dinero, etc.) / Takes car keys or money away from you; I
• Te ha abofeteado, empujado o zamarreado (sacudido) / Has slapped your face, pushed or shaken you; Ph
• No reconoce su responsabilidad sobre la relación de pareja, ni sobre lo que les sucede a ambos / Does not acknowledge any responsibility regarding the relationship or what happens to both of you; D
• Te critica, subestima o humilla por tu forma de ser / Criticizes you, underestimates the way you are, or humiliates your self-esteem; H
• Te niega apoyo, ayuda o afecto como forma de castigarte / Refuses to give you support or affection as a punishment; EP
• Amenaza con suicidarse o hacerse daño si lo/la dejas / Threatens to commit suicide or hurt himself or herself if you leave him or her; C
• Te ha tratado como un objeto sexual / Has treated you as a sexual object; S
• Se ha reído o insultado a las mujeres u hombres como grupo (si es hombre se ha reído o insultado a las mujeres y si es mujer a los hombres) / Has ridiculed or insulted women or men as a group; GB
• Ha lanzado objetos peligrosos contra ti / Has thrown blunt instruments at you; Ph
• Te ha herido con algún objeto / Has hurt you with an object; Ph
• Impone reglas sobre la relación (días, horarios, tipos de salidas) a su conveniencia / Imposes rules on the relationship (days, times, types of outings), at his or her exclusive convenience; D
• Se ríe de la forma en que te expresas / Ridicules your way of expressing yourself; H
• Amenaza con abandonarte / Threatens to abandon you; EP
• Te retiene para que no te vayas / Has physically kept you from leaving; C
• Te sientes forzado a realizar determinados comportamientos sexuales (caricias, besos, tocamientos) / You feel forced to perform certain sexual acts; S
• Ha bromeado o despreciado tu condición de mujer / hombre / Has made fun of or discredited your femininity/masculinity; GB
• Te ha hecho gastar la plata que no tienes / Made you go into financial debt; I
• Estropea objetos muy queridos por ti / Damages or destroys objects that mean a lot to you; Ph
• Ignora tus sentimientos / Has ignored your feelings; D
• Te critica, te insulta o grita / Criticizes, insults you, or yells at you; H
• Te deja de hablar o desaparece por varios días, sin dar explicaciones, como manera de demostrar su enojo / Stops talking to you or disappears for several days, without any explanation, to show their annoyance; D
• Te manipula con mentiras / Manipulates you with lies; D
• No ha tenido en cuenta tus sentimientos sobre el sexo (caricias, tocamientos, etc.) / Doesn’t consider your feelings about sex; S
• Sientes que critica injustamente tu sexualidad (conjunto de actividades y comportamientos relacionados con el placer sexual) / You feel he or she unjustly criticizes your sexuality; GB
• Te insulta en presencia de amigos o familiares / Insults you in the presence of friends or relatives; H
• Se ha negado a ayudarte cuando de verdad lo necesitabas / Has refused to help you when you were in real need; D
• Invade tu espacio (escucha la radio muy fuerte cuando estás estudiando, te interrumpe cuando estás solo/a. . .) o privacidad (lee tus conversaciones de whatsapp, se mete en tu Facebook, etc.) / Invades your space (listening to loud music when you are studying, listening your phone calls. . .); C
• Te fuerza a desnudarte cuando tú no quieres / Forces you to undress even if you don’t want to; S
• Te insulta o se ríe de tus creencias, religión o clase social / Has ridiculed or insulted your beliefs, religion or social class; H
• Te ridiculiza o insulta por las ideas que mantienes / Ridicules or insults you for the ideas you uphold; H
• Sientes que no puedes discutir con él / ella, porque está casi siempre enojado/a contigo / You feel you can’t argue with him or her because he or she is almost always annoyed with you; C
• Te culpa por cosas que no has hecho o que no han sido responsabilidad tuya / Blames you for things that you have not done or that are not under your responsibility; EPa
• Te castiga cuando piensa que te has equivocado / Punishes you when considers you did wrong; EPa
• Amenaza con hacerle daño a tu mascota / Threatens to hurt your pets; Ia
• Amenaza con hacerle daño a amigos o familiares tuyos / Threatens to harm your friends or family; Ia

Note.
 C = Coercion; S = Sexual; GB = Gender-Based; I = Instrumental; Ph = Physical; D = Detachment; 

H = Humiliation; EP = Emotional Punishment.

a : New items, not included in English version (López-Cepero et al., 2016)

Responses:

“rated in a 5-point Likert-type scale from 0 (never) to 4 (continuously).” (Lara & López-Cepero, 2021)

Scoring

Not Reported

Citations

 Lara, L., & López-Cepero, J. (2021). Psychometric Properties of the Dating Violence Questionnaire: Reviewing the Evidence in Chilean Youths. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(5–6), 2373–2392. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518760612

López-Cepero, J., Fabelo, H. E., Rodríguez-Franco, L., & Rodríguez-Díaz, F. J. (2016). The Dating Violence Questionnaire: Validation of the Cuestionario de Violencia de Novios (CUVINO) using a college sample from the United States. Violence and Victims, 31, 438-456. doi:10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-14-00077