Justificiation of Verbal/Coercive Tactics Scale (Slep et al., 2001)
- Populations: Adolescents, Young Adults
- Age ranges: 16-20
- Languages: Spanish
- Countries: Spain; United States
Items
Subscales
- Verbal aggression, Male
- Dominant behavior, Male
- Jealous Tactics, Male
- Verbal aggression, Female
- Dominant behavior, Female
- Jealous Tactics, Female
Item Stem: “How justified are each of these things?”*
Male Items
- Insulting or swearing at boyfriend
- Sulking or refusing to talk about issues with him
- Stomping out of the room or house
- Doing or saying something to spite him
- Keeping him from seeing or talking to his family
- Turning his family and friends against him
- Keeping him from doing things to help himself
- Interfering in his relationship with family members
- Being jealous and suspicious of his friends
- Being jealous of other girls
- Checking up of him/her, making him say where he has been
- Accusing him of seeing another girl
Female Items
- Insulting or swearing at girlfriend
- Sulking or refusing to talk about issues with her
- Stomping out of the room or house
- Doing or saying something to spite her
- Keeping her from seeing or talking to her family
- Turning her family and friends against her
- Keeping her from doing things to help herself
- Interfering in her relationship with family members
- Being jealous and suspicious of her friends
- Being jealous of other boys
- Checking up of her, making him/her say where she has been
- Accusing her of seeing another boy
Responses
Items ask participants if tactics are justified in “many,” “some,” “few,” “extreme,” or ”no” situations.
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
- Slep, A. M. S., Cascardi, M., Avery-Leaf, S., & O’Leary, K. D. (2001). Two new measures of attitudes about the acceptability of teen dating aggression. Psychological Assessment, 13(3), 306-318. https://doi.org/10.1037/1040-3590.13.3.306
- Muñoz-Rivas, M. J., Gámez-Guadix, M., Fernández-González, L., & Lozano, M. P. G. (2011). Validation of the attitudes about aggression in dating situations (AADS) and the justification of Verbal/Coercive tactics scale (JVCT) in spanish adolescents. Journal of Family Violence, 26(8), 575-584. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-011-9391-3
Team comments
This measure was validated alongside Attitudes about Aggression in Dating Situations (Slep et al., 2001)
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Green: Face validity
- Green: Convergent validity
- Green: Construct validity
Reliability
- Green: Internal consistency
- Green: Test-retest
Ease of use
- Unknown: Readability
Definitions
Face validity: How well a measure appears to represent the construct it is supposed to be measuring.
Convergent validity: How well a measure correlates with other hypothetically-related measures.
Construct validity: The extent to which a measure reflects the construct it was designed to evaluate.
Internal consistency: The extent to which items in a scale capture aspects of the same construct.
Test-retest: The degree to which measurement scores are consistent over a short period of time (usually 2 weeks).
Readability: The ease with which a reader can understand the questionnaire items.
Key
- Green: Meets validation criteria
- Red: Does not meet validation criteria
- Unknown: Evidence not available
