Construction of the EVIEES: Gender Violent Practices in Higher Education

Abstract

The aim of this study is to build a psychometric scale about scholar violence between students and students-professors, who belong to public higher education to determine the violent practices by gender, using the Delgadillo (2010, 2012) proposal.   This study is quantitative, transversal, and exploratory. It was worked with 744 college students, 354 men and 388 women; the results showed relevant statistical values: sampling adequacy KMO of .940; Bartlett sphericity of .000; values above .500 commonality; variance explained of 44.15 % , through 64 questions distributed into 8 factors; Cronbach α reliability of .946; they yielded eight indicators:, F1, physical-psychological; F2, underestimate-control; F3, discrimination; F4, injustice; F5, indifference-contempt; F6, disapproving-rejection; F7, abuse; F8, slander. The results showed that the mean per group according to sex, that men have significantly more violent interactions and lead records violence comparison of women, regardless of grade level. The main contribution of this paper is the construction of a specific psychometric for assessing de violence between peers and no peers, overall talking about a subject which is rarely speak it out, besides the initial interpretative of the data. This means that de Higher Education Institutions with the administration justice sector can use this scale for documenting objective evidence in case of suing or complaint because of scholar violence by peers and no peers for protecting the guarantee pointed in the third article, fraction II, subsection “c” of the Constitution of the United States of Mexico, both.