Psychometric Validation of Culturally Adapted Tool for Measuring Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence: Bridging Social Norms and Community Interventions.
Abeer Selim, Rabie Adel El Arab, Salwa Hassanein and 4 others
PMID 41030171WHAT IT FOUND
A six-item scale for Saudi adults captured recognition of domestic violence and support for intervention.
Three questions about accepting violence did not fit, so it measures awareness, not personal acceptance.
Key findings
01Items 1 to 3 did not load coherently with the main factor and were removed from the scale.
02The final six-item scale had high internal consistency, with Cronbach's alpha 0.93 (95% CI 0.91-0.94), and remained stable across gender, age, education, and living-standard subgroups.
03Participants strongly endorsed community awareness (73.4%), help for perpetrators (70.4%), and government action (75.1%).
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What it does not show
Participants were recruited by convenience sampling at health campaigns, so they may not represent all Saudi adults. Responses were anonymous self-report, but social desirability bias may still have affected attitudes. The final six-item scale removed the acceptance and justification items, so it does not measure personal acceptance of domestic violence. The paper reports questionnaire validation, not an intervention trial. The tool was developed for Saudi Arabic-speaking adults; broader use in other populations or languages was proposed but not tested.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the validated six-item scale as measuring personal acceptance of domestic violence. The three acceptance items were removed, and the final tool captures awareness and support for intervention.