Families for Safe Dates physical dating violence perpetration scale (Foshee et al., 2012)

• Populations: adolescents; 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)

• slapped or scratched a date
• physically twisted a date’s arm or bent back his or her fingers
• pushed, grabbed, shoved, or kicked a date
• hit a date with a fist or something hard
• assaulted a date with a knife or gun

“Teens were instructed not to count acts perpetrated in self-defense.” (Foshee et al., 2012)

Responses

Responses Ranged from “never” to “more than four times,”  (Foshee et al., 2012)

Scoring

Responses were coded dichotomously as below due to skewedness of data towards no violence (Foshee et al., 2012)

“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) Psychological Dating Abuse Perpetration Scale (Foshee et al., 2012)