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This study aimed to psychometrically validate the Dating Violence Questionnaire\u2014Revised (DVQ-R) in a sample of 340 Ecuadorian university students. The study included 340 male and female students from two universities in Ecuador. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were rigorously assessed by exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, which revealed a four-factor model as the most parsimonious solution (RMSEA = 0.012). The factors were labelled as follows: \u2018emotional neglect and contempt\u2019, \u2018physical violence and aggression\u2019, \u2018coercion and control\u2019, and \u2018emotional manipulation and testing\u2019. The validated scale yielded a Cronbach\u2019s alpha (\u03b1) of 0.839, with individual alpha values of 0.872, 0.764, 0.849, and 0.729 for each dimension. Convergent validity was established, as the mean variance extracted per factor exceeded 0.4. 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