| We would like to know how often you have experimented each of the following behaviors in the intimate partnership you selected. There are five different levels in the scale, from: never-0 to all of the time-4. Tick the option which fits better to your experience. |
Scale | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | “Tests” your love, setting traps to find out if you are cheating(Pone a prueba tu amor, poniéndote trampas para comprobar si le engañas, le quieres o si le eres fiel) | C |
| 2 | You feel compelled to have sex as long as you don’t have to explain why(Te sientes obligada/o a mantener sexo con tal de no dar explicaciones de por qué) | S |
| 3 | Mocks women or men in general (Se burla acerca de las mujeres u hombres en general) | G |
| 4 | Has stolen from you (Te ha robado) | I |
| 5 | Has beaten you(Te ha golpeado) | P |
| 6 | Is a good student, but is always late at meetings, does not fulfil his/her promises, and is irresponsible(Es cumplidor/a con el estudio, pero llega tarde a las citas, no cumple lo prometido y se muestra irresponsable) | D |
| 7 | Humiliates you in public (Te humilla en público) | H |
| 8 | Refuses to have sex with you or give you affection to express his/her anger/annoyance (Te niega sexo o afecto como forma de enfadarse) | E |
| 9 | Talks to you about relationships he/she imagines you have(Te habla sobre relaciones que imagina que tienes) | C |
| 10 | Insists on touching you in ways and places which you don’t like and don’t want(Insiste en tocamientos que no te son agradables y que tú no quieres) | S |
| 11 | Believes that the opposite sex is inferior, and says that its members should obey men (or women) (Piensa que los del otro sexo son inferiores y manifiesta que deben obedecer a los hombres (o mujeres), o no lo dice, pero actúa de acuerdo con este principio) | G |
| 12 | Takes car keys or money away from you (Te quita las llaves del coche o el dinero) | I |
| 13 | Has slapped your face, pushed or shaken you(Te ha abofeteado, empujado o zarandeado) | P |
| 14 | Does not acknowledge any responsibility regarding the relationship or what happens to both of you(No reconoce responsabilidad alguna sobre la relación de pareja, ni sobre lo que os sucede a ambos) | D |
| 15 | Criticizes you, underestimates the way you are, or humiliates your self-esteem(Te critica, subestima tu forma de ser, o humilla tu amor propio) | H |
| 16 | Refuses to give you support or affection as a punishment (Te niega apoyo, afecto o aprecio como forma de castigarte) | E |
| 17 | Threatens to commit suicide or hurt himself/herself if you leave him/her (Amenaza con suicidarse o hacerse daño si lo/la dejas) | C |
| 18 | Has treated you as a sexual object (Te ha tratado como un objeto sexual) | S |
| 19 | Has ridiculed or insulted women or men as a group (Ha ridiculizado o insultado a las mujeres u hombres como grupo) | G |
| 20 | Has thrown blunt instruments at you(Ha lanzado objetos contundentes contra ti) | P |
| 21 | Has hurt you with an object(Te ha herido con algún objeto) | P |
| 22 | Imposes rules on the relationship (days, times, types of outings), at his/her exclusive convenience (Impone reglas sobre la relación (días, horarios, tipos de salidas), de acuerdo con su conveniencia exclusiva) | D |
| 23 | Ridicules your way of expressing yourself(Ridiculiza tu forma de expresarte) | H |
| 24 | Threatens to abandon you (Te amenaza con abandonarte) | E |
| 25 | Has physically kept you from leaving(Te ha retenido para que no te vayas) | C |
| 26 | You feel forced to perform certain sexual acts(Te sientes forzado/a a realizar determinados actos sexuales) | S |
| 27 | Has made fun of or discredited your feminity/masculinity (Ha bromeado o desprestigiado tu condición de mujer/hombre) | G |
| 28 | Made you go into financial debt (Te ha hecho endeudar) | I |
| 29 | Damages or destroys objects that mean a lot to you (Estropea objetos muy queridos por ti) | P |
| 30 | Has ignored your feelings(Ha ignorado tus sentimientos) | D |
| 31 | Criticizes, insults you, or yells at you (Te critica, te insulta o grita) | H |
| 32 | Stops talking to you or disappears for several days, without any explanation, to show their annoyance (Deja de hablarte o desaparece por varios días, sin dar explicaciones, como manera de demostrar su enfado) | D |
| 33 | Manipulates you with lies (Te manipula con mentiras) | D |
| 34 | Doesn’t consider your feelings about sex (No ha tenido en cuenta tus sentimientos sobre el sexo) | S |
| 35 | You feel he/she unjustly criticizes your sexuality (Sientes que critica injustamente tu sexualidad) | G |
| 36 | Insults you in the presence of friends or relatives (Te insulta en presencia de amigos o familiares) | H |
| 37 | Has refused to help you when you were in real need (Ha rehusado ayudarte cuando de verdad lo necesitabas) | D |
| 38 | Invades your space (listening to a loud music when you are studying, listening your phone calls…)(Invade tu espacio (escucha la radio muy fuerte cuando estás estudiando, te interrumpe cuando estás solo/a…) o privacidad (abre cartas dirigidas a ti, escucha tus conversaciones telefónicas…) | C |
| 39 | Forces you to undress even if you don’t want to(Te fuerza a desnudarte cuando tu no quieres) | S |
| 40 | Has ridiculed or insulted your beliefs, religion or social class(Ha ridiculizado o insultado tus creencias, religión o clase social) | H |
| 41 | Ridicules or insults you for the ideas you uphold(Te ridiculiza o insulta por las ideas que mantienes) | H |
| 42 | You feel you can’t argue with him/her because he/she is almost always annoyed with you (Sientes que no puedes discutir con él/ella, porque está casi siempre enfadado/a contigo) | C |
Note. D= Detachment; H= Humiliation; S= Sexual; C = Coercion; P = Physical; G = Gender-based; E = Emotional punishment; I= Instrumental. Translated and adapted from original “Validation of the Dating Violence Questionnaire, DVQ (Cuestionario de Violencia entre Novios, CUVINO).
Note: Numbers refer to original DVQ 42-item set (López-Cepero et al., 2016).