@article{ref1,
title="Measuring attitudes about intimate partner violence against women: the ATT-IPV Scale",
journal="Demography",
year="2014",
author="Yount, Kathryn M. and Vanderende, Kristin and Zureick-Brown, Sarah and Anh, Hoang Tu and Schuler, Sidney Ruth and Minh, Tran Hung",
volume="51",
number="4",
pages="1551-1572",
abstract="In lower-income settings, women more often than men justify intimate partner violence (IPV). Yet, the role of measurement invariance across gender is unstudied. We developed the ATT-IPV scale to measure attitudes about physical violence against wives in 1,055 married men and women ages 18-50 in My Hao district, Vietnam. Across 10 items about transgressions of the wife, women more often than men agreed that a man had good reason to hit his wife (3 % to 92 %; 0 % to 67 %). In random split-half samples, one-factor exploratory factor analysis (EFA) (N 1 = 527) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) (N 2 = 528) models for nine items with sufficient variability had significant loadings (0.575-0.883; 0.502-0.897) and good fit (RMSEA = 0.068, 0.048; CFI = 0.951, 0.978, TLI = 0.935, 0.970). Three items had significant uniform differential item functioning (DIF) by gender, and adjustment for DIF revealed that measurement noninvariance was partially masking men's lower propensity than women to justify IPV. A CFA model for the six items without DIF had excellent fit (RMSEA = 0.019, CFI = 0.994, TLI = 0.991) and an attitudinal gender gap similar to the DIF-adjusted nine-item model, suggesting that the six-item scale reliably measures attitudes about IPV across gender. Researchers should validate the scale in urban Vietnam and elsewhere and decompose DIF-adjusted gender attitudinal gaps.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0070-3370",
doi="10.1007/s13524-014-0297-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0297-6"
}