Conflict resolution styles and teen dating violence

  1. Helena Bonache 1
  2. Gustavo Ramírez-Santana 1
  3. Rosaura Gonzalez-Mendez 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

Revista:
International journal of clinical and health psychology

ISSN: 1697-2600

Any de publicació: 2016

Volum: 16

Número: 3

Pàgines: 276-286

Tipus: Article

DOI: 10.1016/J.IJCHP.2016.03.003 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccés obert editor

Altres publicacions en: International journal of clinical and health psychology

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Background/Objective: Training in conflict resolution strategies is a goal in different intervention contexts, and the Conflict Resolution Styles Inventory is a proven, useful tool for assessing these skills. Two studies were conducted, one aimed at analyzing psychometric properties of this instrument, and the other at verifying its ability to discriminate between violent and non-violent adolescent dating partners. Method: In the first study, with 592 adolescents, confirmatory factor analyzes were performed with the two subscales (self and partner). The second study, with 1,938 adolescents, tested whether the factorial structure obtained discriminates between levels of dating violence involvement. Results: Besides verifying the adequacy of items, the results of the first study showed the same three-factor structure in both versions: a positive approach to conflicts and two non-constructive styles, engagement and withdrawal. The second study demonstrated the discriminative capacity of both scales. Conclusions: The final tool, which consisted of 13 items with a good internal consistency, may be useful for assessing the effectiveness of interventions to improve conflict resolution skills, as well as for screening and classification purposes.

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This research was funded in part by the Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad (Spain) and European Social Fund under Grant 53/12. Appendix

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