Modified Conflict Tactics Scale (Ortuño-Sierra et al., 2023)

Intimate partner violence screening in both victims and perpetrators for adolescents and young adults; 18 items, Ages 13-21
  • 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

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