Abstract
Cyber dating violence is an emerging form of dating violence that may have serious health effects on adolescents and young people, and in recent years interest in its study has increased. In order to understand completely the nature and magnitude of the problem, a clear understanding of the concept, constructs and well-established measurement tools are needed. The goal of this study was to analyze the measurement instruments of cyber dating violence in adolescents and young adults, and to determine which are the best suitable to use. To accomplish these objectives a systematic review was carried out. After reviewing the literature, twenty-four measurement instruments were analyzed, with important differences found between them in terms, constructs, dimensions and measurement attributes, as well as differences in their assessed psychometric properties. Once the methodological quality evaluation of the instruments was carried out following COSMIN (COnsensus based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments) guidelines, three scales were found to be recommendable depending on the age and cultural context of participants: Cyber Dating Abuse Questionnaire (Borrajo, Gámez-Guadix, Pereda, et al., 2015), Technology-facilitated Abuse in Relationships Scale (Brown & Hegarty, 2021), and Abuse in Teen Relationships (CARPA; Calvete et al., 2021).
Highlights
Young people’s use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to communicate and interact with other people has increased in recent decades (Duerksen & Woodin, 2019)
Use in future studies should be cyber dating violence (CDV) because, on the one hand, the term cyber denotes a relationship with information technology and, on the other hand, the term dating violence refers to violence in relationships between adolescents or young people, where the members of the couple do not live together, are not financially independent from their parents, and do not have well-established relationships (Ibabe et al, 2020)
After assessing articles for inclusion and exclusion criteria, a total of 24 instruments and 29 psychometric studies were included in the methodological evaluation using the COSMIN Risk of Bias checklist
Summary
Young people’s use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to communicate and interact with other people has increased in recent decades (Duerksen & Woodin, 2019). Technology has modified the ways in which violence can be perpetrated and suffered, making it immediate, beyond any physical limit, through a wide number of media (e.g., email, instant messaging services and social networks) and with minimal effort, thereby causing a greater impact on the victim, more rapidly and in different areas of his/her life. In this way, along with these changes in relationships, a new form of intimate partner violence has emerged, called cyber or digital dating violence or abuse (Zweig et al, 2014).
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