Dr. José Luis Rojas-Solís:

I believe that you would serve as an excellent reviewer of the manuscript, "Development and validation of a desensitization to violence scale for adolescents," which has been submitted to Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology. The submission's abstract is inserted below, and I hope that you will consider undertaking this important task for us.

Please log into the journal web site by 2018-05-28 to indicate whether you will undertake the review or not, as well as to access the submission and to record your review and recommendation.

The review itself is due 2018-06-18.

Submission URL: https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/reviewer/submission/350?key=ACCESS_KEY

Thank you for considering this request.

Dr. Edil Torres Rivera
South University
edil.torres@sipsych.org



"Development and validation of a desensitization to violence scale for adolescents"

Abstract
Desensitization to violence is the result of exposure to violence. It reduces de emotional, cognitive and physiological responses to violence, even generate a positive response to it.
Method. A mixed sequential method was employed to finally perform a transactional analytic design for the EFA and CFA which included 1720 participants of 25 different high schools and a juvenile detention center.
Results.  The EFA reached a .7234 cumulative proportion of variance and a Cronbach's alpha of .936. The CFA showed scores above .78 in CR, .52 in AVE, and  less than .461 in MSV; Indicating that the desensitization to violence scale for adolescents has adequate psychometric properties. The scale measure enjoyment in exerting psychological violence, amusement in witnessing physical violence, and amusement in witnessing psychological violence.
Key words: desensitization, youth, psychometrics, social psychology, violence.
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Edil Torres Rivera, Ph.D., Editor
Interamerican Journal of Psychology
http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP