Modified Conflict Tactics Scale (Ortuño-Sierra et al., 2023)
- Populations: Adolescents
- Age ranges: 13-21
- Languages: Spanish
- Countries: Spain
Items
Subscales:
- Argumentation Victim
- Psychological Aggression Victim
- Medium Physical Aggression Victim
- Severe Physical Aggression Victim
- Argumentation Perpetrator
- Psychological Aggression Perpetrator
- Medium Physical Aggression Perpetrator
- Severe Physical Aggression Perpetrator
Full Measure not reported. Example items from Ortuño-Sierra et al. p. 2 (2023) below.
- have you tried to physically restrain your partner and have you hit your partner
- Verbal: you have argued in a specific way
- Psychological: you have cried as a consequence of a discussion
- Physical aggression: you have thrown an object at your boyfriend/girlfriend
Responses
Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale, 1 = Never, 5 = Very ofen.
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
Ortuño-Sierra, J., Marugán Garrido, N., Gutiérrez García, A., Ciarreta López, A., & Camara-Pastor, T. (2023). Measuring Violence Behaviours in the Context of Romantic Relationships during Adolescence: New Evidence about the Modified Conflict Tactics Scale. Children, 10(2), 297. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10020297
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
- Unknown: 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