Teen Dating Aggression Measure (Persram et al., 2021)

• Populations: Adolescents
• Age ranges: Grades 7-12, M age 15.89
• Languages: English
• Countries: Canada

Items

Subscales

• Psychological Aggression, 17 Items
• Physical, Sexual Aggression, 14 Items
• Relational Aggression, 9 Items

Items by Subscale

Psychological Agression

• Tried to turn my friends against me.
• Said or did something just to make me feel jealous.
• Destroyed or threatened to destroy something I valued.
• Brought up something bad I had done in the past.
• Said or did something just to make me angry.
• Spoke to me in a hostile or mean tone of voice.
• Insulted me. 
• Kept track of who I was with and where I was.
• Blamed me for a problem or fight we were having.
• Accused me of flirting with someone else.
• Screamed or yelled at me. 
• Said mean things to me. 
• Gave me the silent treatment.
• Got upset when I spent time with other people.
• Said mean things to me about someone else who is important to me.
• Told me that I needed to spend more time with him/her.
• Made me let them read my e-mails or texts when I didn’t want them to

Physical, Sexual Aggression

• Threw something at me. 
• Forced me to do something sexual that I didn’t want to. 
• Threatened me to get me to do something sexual with him/her.
• Kissed me when I didn’t want him/her to.
• Kicked, hit, or punched me. 
• Slapped me or pulled my hair. 
• Threatened to hurt me. 
• Threatened to hit or throw something at me. 
• Pushed, shoved, grabbed, or shook me. 
• Made me do something I really didn’t want to do. 
• Was mean to me or insulted me to get me to do something for him/her.
• Got mad at me when I said “no” to him/her about something.
• Threatened me to try to get me to do something he/she wanted me to do.
• Kept pressuring me to do something even after I made it clear that I did not want to.

Relational Aggression

• Said things to my friends about me to turn them against me. 
• Threatened to break up with me or end our friendship.
• Spread rumors about me. 
• Left me out of an activity or a social group on purpose. 
• Said means things about me to other people. 
• Talked about how other people were better or more fun than me. 
• Told me that other people didn’t like me. 
• Told me that I was not a good boyfriend/girlfriend 
• Got upset when I did really well on something.

Responses

Items used a 5 Point Likert-type scale, 0 = “never”, 4 = “most days of the week”

Scoring

Not Reported

Citations

Persram, R. J., Wong, T. K. Y., Vargas-Madriz, L. F., Konishi, C., Dryburgh, N. S. J., Dirks, M. A., Martin-Storey, A., & Craig, W. (2021). Development and Validation of the Teen Dating Aggression Measure Among Canadian Youth. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 763210. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.763210