Psychometric Properties and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Spanish Version of the Maudsley Violence Questionnaire among Adolescent Students

Vanesa Pérez-Martínez, Miriam Sánchez-SanSegundo, Rosario Ferrer-Cascales, Oriol Lordan, Nicola Bowes and Carmen Vives-Cases
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Vanesa Pérez-Martínez: Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine, Public Health and History of Science Department, University of Alicante, 03009 Alicante, Spain
Miriam Sánchez-SanSegundo: Health Psychology Department, University of Alicante, 03009 San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain
Rosario Ferrer-Cascales: Health Psychology Department, University of Alicante, 03009 San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain
Oriol Lordan: Business Organization Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08222 Terrassa, Spain
Nicola Bowes: Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff CF5 2YB, UK
Carmen Vives-Cases: Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine, Public Health and History of Science Department, University of Alicante, 03009 Alicante, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 15, 1-13

Abstract: The Maudsley Violence Questionnaire (MVQ) is an instrument specifically developed to evaluate violent thinking through two subscales examining macho attitudes and the acceptance of violence. This study analyzed the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Spanish version of the MVQ questionnaire in a large sample of 1933 Spanish adolescents. An online questionnaire was used to collect variables, such as sociodemographic and sexism data. The factor structure showed good fit indices in Spanish adolescents, which were similar to the original scale. The exploratory analysis yielded a first factor that explained 11.3% of the total variance and a second factor that explained 10.8% of the total variance. The Goodness of Fit Index (GFI) (0.902), Adjusted Goodness of Fit Index (AGFI) (0.90), Normed Fit Index (NNFI) (0.85), and the Comparative Fit Index (CFI) (0.86) suggested that the model fit the data adequately (with values ? 0.90) and the Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) (?0.10) values indicative of an adequate fit. This study contributes a Spanish-language validated tool to measure machismo and the acceptance of violence among adolescents.

Keywords: machismo; acceptance of violence; MVQ; dating violence; teenagers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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