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Intimate Partner Violence in Turkey: The Turkish Intimate Partner Violence Attitude Scale-Revised

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This study documents psychometrics of the Turkish version of Intimate Partner Violence Attitude Scale-Revised (IPVAS-R; Fincham et al. in Psychological Assessment, 20, 260–269, 2008). Dating college students (n=280) from four universities completed Turkish versions of the IPVAS-R, Multidimensional Measure of Emotional Abuse, Physical Assault of Conflict Tactics Scale - Revised, and Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the three factor structure of the IPVAS-R, albeit with an item change from the Abuse to the Control factor, due to the cultural nuances. This factor structure was cross validated with a second independent sample of 205 dating college students. Convergent validity and satisfactory internal consistency were also reported. The IPVAS-R was found to be a psychometrically sound measure to gauge attitudes toward psychological and physical dating aggression among college students outside of North America.

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  1. Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Kocaeli University, 41380, İzmit, Kocaeli, Turkey

    Ezgi Toplu Demirtaş

  2. Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

    Zeynep Hatipoğlu-Sümer

  3. FSU Family Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

    Frank D. Fincham

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This study is part of the first author’s PhD thesis submitted to the Department of Educational Sciences, Middle East Technical University in 2015 under the supervision of second author. The first author was financially supported by Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, TÜBİTAK).

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Toplu Demirtaş, E., Hatipoğlu-Sümer, Z. & Fincham, F.D. Intimate Partner Violence in Turkey: The Turkish Intimate Partner Violence Attitude Scale-Revised. J Fam Viol 32, 349–356 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-016-9852-9

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