Mitos de Violencia Contra las Mujeres en la Pareja: La escala MIPVAW

Rafael García-Pérez; Manuel Rodríguez López; Ángeles Rebollo Catalán; Mercedes Cubero Pérez; Miguel Jesús Bascón Díaz

doi:10.30827/relieve.v30i2.29751

Authors

Rafael García-Pérez University of Seville https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6282-3016
Manuel Rodríguez López University of Seville
Ángeles Rebollo Catalán University of Seville https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3523-0714
Mercedes Cubero Pérez University of Seville https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0417-4246
Miguel Jesús Bascón Díaz University of Seville

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/relieve.v30i2.29751

Keywords:

Violence against women, intimate partner violence, beliefs, gender bias, measurement

Abstract

Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is occurring at increasingly younger ages, with young people labelling certain early warning signs of violence against women as "normal". This normalization of violence allows perpetrators to maintain their friendships and social reputation, while reducing victims’ social support and increasing their vulnerability. Theoretical reviews suggest that the measures available to assess the acceptance of myths about IPVAW should be updated to incorporate the normalization of violence. The purpose of this study is to develop a new scale (MIPVAW) to assess the degree of acceptance of myths about intimate partner violence. To this end, 1,500 first-year spanish university students (age: M = 18.9; SD = 1.38) completed the MIPVAW scale and the Spanish adaptation of the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. The EFA and CFA results support a four-factor structure, showing adequate reliability indices, which is achieved with only 15 items. This indicates that the scale is sensitive for assessing the acceptance of different myths about IPVAW: minimization of violence, victim-blaming, exoneration of the perpetrator, and normalization of violence. A high correlation is also demonstrated between MIPVAW scale scores and ambivalent sexism. This scale represents a novel contribution to the measurement of this construct. This scale represents a novel contribution to measuring this construct, since it includes the normalization of violence and improves its applicability because of the reduced number of indicators used for its measurement.

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Author Biographies

Rafael García-Pérez, University of Seville

Doctor in Education, he has been a full professor in the Department of Research Methods and Diagnosis in Education since 2004 and a member of the research group Development and Innovation of Educational Models (HUM-833), of the Inter-University Association for Educational Research (AIDIPE) and of the European Educational Research Association (EERA). As a senior researcher at the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of Seville, his main line of research focuses on diagnosis in education from a gender perspective, specifically linked to the prevention of violence based on sexism and homophobia.

Manuel Rodríguez López, University of Seville

Doctor in Education, he has been a contracted doctoral lecturer in the Department of Educational Research Methods at the University of Seville since 2007. He has been interested in the evaluation of educational policies and the role of women in public management by applying quantitative methodology and multivariate statistical analysis.

Ángeles Rebollo Catalán, University of Seville

Doctor in Education and full professor at the University of Seville in the Department of Educational Research Methods and Diagnostic. She oversees the Gender and Education thematic network of the Inter-University Association for Educational Research (AIDIPE) and of the Women and Gender Studies in Education line of the Andalusian Inter-University Institute for Educational Research (IEdu). As a senior researcher at the Faculty of Education of the University of Seville (Spain), her main interests lie in women's studies, co-education and the prevention of gender-based violence.

Mercedes Cubero Pérez, University of Seville

Doctor in Psychology, she is a full professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Seville and a member of the Human Activity Laboratory research group. Her most recent research has focused on the cultural (re)construction of identity in situations of vulnerability, including women who have been able to reconstruct their identity after gender violence.

Miguel Jesús Bascón Díaz, University of Seville

Doctor in Psychology, he is a contracted doctoral lecturer in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Seville (Spain) and a member of the Human Activity Laboratory research group. He has studied the psychological processes involved in adolescent conflicts from a gender perspective.

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