Families for Safe Dates (FSD) Psychological Dating Abuse Perpetration Scale (Foshee et al., 2012)

• Populations: American 7th grade students
• Age ranges: 13-15
• Languages: English
• Countries: United States

Items

Precise wording not reported, described as,

“how many times the teen had ever:” (Foshee et al., 2012)

• insulted a date in front of others
• not let a date do things with other people
• made a date describe where he/she was every minute of the day
• threatened to hurt a date

Responses

“Response options ranged from “never” to “more than four times.”” (Foshee et al., 2012)

Scoring

“Items were summed to create continuous psychological perpetration and victimization composite scores.” (Foshee et al., 2012)

Anoter version of the scale used the following coding:

“Response options for each of the items within each scale were coded dichotomously: never (0), any (1).” (Cutbush & Williams, 2016)

Citations

Foshee, V. A., Ph.D, McNaughton Reyes, Heath Luz, M.P.H, Ennett, S. T., Ph.D, Cance, J. D., Ph.D, Bauman, K. E., Ph.D, & Bowling, J. M., Ph.D. (2012). Assessing the effects of families for safe dates, a family-based teen dating abuse prevention program. Journal of Adolescent Health, 51(4), 349-356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.12.029

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

Team comments

This scale was developed alongside Families for Safe Dates (FSD) Physical Dating Abuse Perpetration Scale (Foshee et al., 2012)