VIolence fait aux Filles dans les Fréencontres à l’Adolescence (Violence against girls in the context of adolescence, Lavoie & VÉZINA, 2009)
- Populations: Adolescents
- Age ranges: 13-18
- Languages: French
- Countries: Canada
Items
Subscales:
This measure has two versions made for girls and for boys separately.
Girls Items
Violence verbale et émotionnelle, 14 Items
Violence physique, 7 Items
Jalousie, 4 Items
Violence sexuelle, 4 Items
Boys Items
Violence psychologique, 13 Items
Jalousie et violence dans les relations sexuelles, 6 Items
Violence physique sévère, 5 Items
Violence physique mineure, 5 Items
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
Lavoie, F., & Vézina, L. (2001). Violence Faite Aux Filles Dans le Contexte des Fréquentations À L’adolescence: Élaboration D’un Instrument (Viffa). Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 20(1), 153–171. https://doi.org/10.7870/cjcmh-2001-0009
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Unknown: 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
