International Journal of School and Cognitive Psychology
Open Access

Abstract

Psychometrics of a Tool on Intimate Partner Violence among Female Teachers in a Nigerian State

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); sexual violence (0.3-0.52, 0.72) and physical violence (0.3-0.69, 0.73). Experience of psychological and physical violence differed significantly with having an alcoholic spouse while weekly alcoholics differed with the former IPV construct. Having less than three children and voluntary termination of pregnancy differed with sexual violence. Psychological violence was significantly different with ever tried delaying or avoiding getting pregnant p<0.05.

Conclusion: This study affirms the validation of the WHO/IPV tool’s delineation across theorized psychological, physical and sexual constructs among secondary school teachers. The tool discriminated against pertinent family, lifestyle, sexual and reproductive characteristics of these pivotal change agents in grass-root prevention of IPV. The tool can be used to assess the problem among the specified population.

Published Date: 2023-03-03; Received Date: 2023-02-01