Psychometric properties of the Attitudes of the Youth toward the Violence in Partnership Scale

So far, a significant number of programs for the prevention of violence in partner relationships have been developed, which opened up the need to develop instruments for their evaluation, the number of which is scarce for now. In this paper, one such instrument is proposed in the form of a Likert-type scale with a five-point ranking of answers. The initial content consisted of 42 items that were proven in the literature to be significant predictors of the occurrence and manifestation of violence in young people's partner relationships. The scale, together with the demographic questionnaire, was administered online to a sample of 193 respondents of the student population (85.1% female), aged 19-22, from three university centers, Belgrade, Ni & scaron; and Novi Sad. By applying the analysis of the main components, a one-component solution of 22 items was extracted, which explained 51.2% of the variance of the criteria and according to its content, it was called the "Scale of attitudes of the youth toward the violence in partnership". The reliability of the scale, expressed by the value of the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient, was .951. This confirms that this scale has the conditions to be used as a reliable instrument for the evaluation of preventive programs for the control and prevention of violence in partnership of young people.