Electronic Behavior of Adolescents in Relationships (Johnson, 2017)

• Populations: Adolescents
• Age ranges: 13-18
• Languages: English
• Countries: United States

Items

Subscales

• Victimization: 16 Items
  • Threatening / Coercive Behaviors
  • Monitoring
• Perpetration: 16 Items
  • Threatening / Coercive Behaviors
  • Monitoring

Items by Subscale

Victimization

Item Stem: In the past year using technology, how often has your current or recent dating partner:

• Posted a comment or status on social media to show that they care about you?
• Logged into your social media or Internet account without your permission (to see who you were talking to or change your profile like deleting friends/followers)?
• Posted a comment or status on social media to hurt, embarrass, or get back you (for example, a sub/ subliminal message)?
• Called or sent you messages repeatedly (for example, blowing up your phone, trying to find out where you are or who you are with)?
• Pressured you to send a sexual message, picture or video (sext)? 
• Threatened to hurt you in a message, phone call, or on social media?
• Told you who you can and can’t be friends with or talk to social media? 
• Posted a happy picture of you on social media for others to see? 
• Used technology to know where you were or if you were active on social media (for example, location tracking, GPS apps)?
• Threatened to share a personal or embarrassing photo or video of you without permission (for example, threats to blackmail or expose you through social media, group text)?
• Looked through your phone to see your calls, texts, social media messages (such as DMs, chats), or photos?
• Threatened you if you did not send a sexual picture or message? 
• Sent sexual photo or video of you to others without permission? 
• Pressured or insisted that you give them your passwords so they could access your phone or other online accounts?
• Sent a sexual picture, video or text when you didn’t want it? 
• Pressured you to respond quickly to their calls, texts, or other messages?

Perpetration

Item Stem: In the past year using technology, how often have you:

• Posted a comment or status on social media to show that you care about your partner? 
• Logged into their social media or other Internet account without your partner’s permission (to see who they were talking to or change their profile like deleting friends/followers)?
• Sent your partner a message to tell you were thinking about you? 
• Called or sent your partner messages repeatedly (for example, blowing up their phone, trying to find out where they are or who they’re with)?
• Pressured your partner to send a sexual message, picture or video (sext)?
• Threatened to hurt your partner in a message, phone call, or on social media?
• Told your partner who they can and can’t be friends with or talk to social media? 
• Posted a happy picture of them on social media for others to see? 
• Used technology to know where your partner was or if you were active on social media (for example, location tracking, GPS apps)? 
• Threatened to share a personal or embarrassing photo or video of your partner without permission (for example, threats to blackmail or expose you through social media, group text)?
• Looked through your partner’s phone to see their calls, texts, social media messages (such as DMs, chats), or photos?
• Threatened your partner if they did not send a sexual picture or message? 
• Sent a sexual photo or video of your partner to others without permission? 
• Pressured or insisted that your partner give you their passwords so you could access their phone or other online accounts? 
• Sent a sexual picture, video or message when your partner didn’t want it? 
• Pressured your partner to respond quickly to your calls, texts, or other messages? 

Item stem emphasis retained from Johnson (2017).

Responses

Items used a 4 point Likert-type scale, 0 = Never, 1 = Rarely, 2 = Sometimes, 3 = Often

Scoring

Not Reported

Citations

Johnson, S.E. (2017). Teen Digital Dating Abuse: Development and Validation of a Self-Report Measure [Doctoral Dissertation, Northeastern University]. ProQuest Dissertations