Design and validation of a scale of historical factors of childhood violence

Abstract

The present study aims to design and validate a questionnaire for measuring the historical factors of violence in childhood and youth in El Salvador. The study is an instrumental type, with the use of a non-probability sampling. The test sample consisted of 1,111 people in the area of San Salvador, using the survey technique. The overall mean age was 16.6 years, with a standard deviation of 1.61; the sample was composed of 563 women (50.60%) and 548 men (49.30%). As a result of the research conducted, it shows that the scale built enjoys both content validity, construct validity and criterion validity, as well as reliability for the country of El Salvador.

Entorno, august 2013, issue 53: 86-91