Intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is a major social and public health problem of global proportions. Public attitudes toward IPVAW shape the social environment in which such violence takes place, and attitudes of acceptability of IPVAW are considered a risk factor to actual IPVAW. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale measuring acceptability of IPVAW (A-IPVAW). To this end, a sample of 1,800 respondents was recruited via social media. A second sample of 50 IPVAW offenders was used for concurrent validity analyses. Following a cross-validation approach and using item response theory analyses, we found that the latent structure of the scale was one-dimensional and very informative for high and very high levels of acceptability of IPVAW. Regarding criterion-related validity, we found that (a) our measure was related to perceived severity of IPVAW and ambivalent sexism, (b) men showed higher levels of acceptability than women, and (c) IPVAW offenders reported higher levels of acceptability than men from the general population. Taken together, our results provide evidence that the A-IPVAW is a reliable and valid instrument to assess acceptability of IPVAW.

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衡量亲密伴侣对妇女的暴力行为的可接受性：A-IPVAW量表的制定和验证

对妇女的亲密伴侣暴力（IPVAW）是全球范围内的主要社会和公共卫生问题。公众对IPVAW的态度决定了发生这种暴力行为的社会环境，IPVAW的接受态度被认为是实际IPVAW的风险因素。这项研究的目的是开发和验证衡量IPVAW（A-IPVAW）可接受性的量表。为此，通过社交媒体招募了1800名受访者。50名IPVAW罪犯的第二个样本用于并发有效性分析。遵循交叉验证方法并使用项目响应理论进行分析，我们发现量表的潜在结构是一维的，对于IPVAW的高度和非常高的可接受性非常有用。关于与标准相关的有效性，我们发现（a）我们的测量与IPVAW的严重程度和矛盾的性别歧视有关，（b）男性的接受程度高于女性，并且（c）IPVAW犯罪者的接受程度高于普通人群。综上所述，我们的结果提供了证据，表明A-IPVAW是评估IPVAW可接受性的可靠且有效的工具。