Estudio exploratorio de una escala de detección de violencia en la pareja en personas mayores españolas

Abstract

Intimate partner violence among elderly couples has barely been studied in our country, despi-te the fact that a great amount of victims belong to this age-group. One of the key prevention fac-tors of this violence is the identification and early detection, for this purpose it is really useful to havespecific instruments and resources. This study aims to explore the suitable of applying to this popu-lation a detection scale originally designed for young. The exploratory factor analysis by the maincomponents´method shows three main factors explaining 74.29 % of the variance. Internal consis-tency measure with Cronbach´s alpha results higher than 0.9, for the whole scale and for each fac-tors: control; threat and sexual constraint; jealousy and emotional hostility. Taken together, these fin-dings support the utility of the scale to assess partner violence in the elderly