International Journal of School and Cognitive Psychology
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Department of Community Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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  Psychometrics of a Tool on Intimate Partner Violence among Female Teachers in a Nigerian State
  Author(s): Gabriel Ifeoluwa Makinde*, Ayodeji Matthew Adebayo, Winifred I Imoyera and David Williams Lounsbury
  
  Background: One of the possible strategies for instilling culture of prevention of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) among rudimentary age-groups is training of teachers on this subject. Aim: To determine teachers’ ability to precisely define their experience of IPV prior to training, this study evaluates the psychometric properties of an adapted WHO/IPV scale assessed on teachers of selected secondary schools. Methods: Self-applied responses from a WHO scale on experience of IPV of a sample of 365 female teachers recruited by a two-stage sampling technique was subjected to principal component analysis and ANOVA of independent comparative means. Results: The PCA yielded three components with respective items correlation range and reliability of: Psychological violence (0.3-0.43, 0.61).. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2469-9837.23.10.283

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