Violence in dating relationships: Validation of the Dominating and Jealous Tactics Scale in Spanish youth

Abstract

The Dominant and Jealous Tactics Scale (Kasian & Painter, 1992) is one of the most extensively used instruments to measure dominance and jealousy in dating relationships of young adults and adolescents. The goal of this study is to analyze the psychometric properties of this scale and validate its adequacy for young Spanish population. the sample was made up of 8105 youths from the Region of Madrid, aged between 14 and 26 years. Results of the confirmatory factor analysis indicate two correlated factors: Dominant Tactics and Jealous Tactics, along the lines of the original study. The reliability of the scale was good. With regard to convergent validity, positive and significant correlations were observed with the modified version of the Conflicts Tactics Scale (M-CTS; Neidig, 1986), which measures physical and verbal violence in dating relationships. With regard to known groups validity, we observed significant differences in dominant and jealous tactics as a function of age and gender, in the expected direction. This scale is a reliable and valid instrument to assess dominant and jealous tactics in dating relationships of youth and adolescents in Spain.

Cultural Adaptation of the Modified Version of the Conflicts Tactics Scale (M-CTS) in Mexican Adolescents

“…It is made up of 11 bidirectional items with a 5-point response (from 1 “never” to 5 “very frequently”) to measure perpetration and victimization of dominant and jealous tactics. In the Spanish adaptation the reliability of the scale was good for both perpetration and victimization (Cronbach α = 0.76 and α = 0.78, respectively; Muñoz-Rivas et al, 2019). In the present sample, the result of the Exploratory Factor Analysis indicated that the eleven items, for both perpetration and for victimization scales were distributed in two factors (Dominant and Jealous tactics), the total variance explained by the two factors in the perpetration model was 38.1%, and 41.85% for the victimization model.…”

“…The Dominating and Jealous Tactics Scale (DJTS; Kasian and Painter, 1992), Spanish validation (Muñoz-Rivas et al, 2019) has been used to analyze the convergent validity of M-CTS in measuring perpetration and victimization of psychological violence in courtship. It is made up of 11 bidirectional items with a 5-point response (from 1 “never” to 5 “very frequently”) to measure perpetration and victimization of dominant and jealous tactics.…”

Design and Validation of the Scale TDV-VP Teen Dating Violence: Victimisation and Perpetration [Violencia en Parejas Adolescentes: Victimización y Perpetración] for Spanish Speakers

“…These questionnaires include the Acceptance of Dating Violence Scale (ADV) [ 17 ], Attitudes about Aggression in Dating Situations Scale and the Justification of Verbal/Coercive Tactics Scale (JTVC), which covers aspects related to the justification of both female and male aggression [ 18 ]. Further, the Spanish version of the Conflict Resolution Styles Inventory contemplates aspects of positive approach in conflicts [ 19 ]; the Dominating and Jealous Tactics Scale allows for the measure of tactics of domination and jealousy [ 20 ]; the scale of Cyberviolence in Adolescent Couples (Cib-VPA) [ 21 ] and the English version of the Cyberdating Questionnaire [ 22 ] focus on jealousy tactics, intrusive control and conduct through social media. The Spanish version of the Dating Violence Questionnaire (DVQ) [ 23 ] is a reduction of CUVINO, the Questionnaire of Psychological Violence in Courtship (PDV-Q) is focused on psychological aspects [ 24 ], and the Spanish version of physical dating violence [ 25 ] focus on physical aspects.…”

Violencia de Género: Una Revisión de Instrumentos de Medida

“…La escala de VG en adolescentes (ESGIVA; Penado-Abilleira & Rodicio-García, 2018) que evalúa cinco factores que incluyen la ciberviolencia. El Cuestionario de Violencia entre Novios (DVQ) (Rodríguez-Franco et al, 2010) y su versión revisada y abreviada (DVQ-R; Rodríguez-Díaz et al, 2017) y la Escala de Tácticas Dominantes y Celosas (DJTS; Kasian & Painter, 1992;Muñoz-Rivas et al, 2019), que mide dominancia y celos.…”