title: Brief report: Acceptance of physical violence (APV) among adolescents in a Norwegian normal sample; statistical description of the assessment.
abstract: The article presents a psychometric description of 11 statements related to use of physical violence. The items were tested in a normal sample (N=1700, age: 15-16) from urban and rural areas in Western Norway. The internal reliability was alpha=0.86, and the factor analysis resulted in two factors. Boys had higher mean scores than girls. Self-reported violence was predicted by acceptance of physical violence.
authors.affiliation: Bergen College (HiB), Faculty of Education, Postbox 7030, Bergen N-5020, Norway. fne@hib.no
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Naevdal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001290:Attitude / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D012938:Social Perception; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*