Abuse in university dating relationships: gender differences
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https://doi.org/10.33304/revinv.v09n1-2017006Keywords:
Abuse, Dating relationships, CollegeAbstract
The relationships during adolescence and emerging adulthood have important implications for the development and well-being (Van de Bongardt, Yu, Deković, & Meeus, 2015). In addition to helping with the acquisition of specific interpersonal skills, these experiences can influence their future relations. In Colombia there has been little published research focused exclusively on abuse in dating during adolescence and youth. Therefore, the aim of this study is to detect the presence of partner violence in a sample of students from the School of Psychology at the Pontificia Bolivariana University, in Bucaramanga, comparing gender with the possible forms of violence. Participants were 236 students from the Faculty of Psychology of that University (boys N = 32, girls N = 204), aged com-of between 16 and 28 years, with an average age of 22.27 years and a standard deviation of 2.6 years. The results show that 34.7% of participants reported having used violence Relacional (3.8% men and 30.9% women). Regarding verbal violence, 94.9% said such violence with heir partner (13.1% men versus 81.8% women). Similarly, 22% of students said to have carried out some form of physical violence (2.5% men and 19.5% women), finding no statistically significant differences between gender percentages in any of these behaviors. As for the experience of victimization, it found that 45.3% of participants suffered from Victimization Relacional (6.8% men vs. 38.6% women), 91.9% of Victimization Verbal (13.1% men versus 78.8% women) and 17.8% physical Victimization (5.5% men versus 12.3% women). Only statistically significant differences in gender in physical victimization were found. In addition, the most frequent violent behavior was the emotional verbal, followed by physical and relational, with no statistically significant differences between genders. As for victimization experiences, the results show that emotional verbal victimization was more common than the other types of victimization, being statistically significant in the gender differences emotional verbal victimization.Downloads
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