Session Information
08 SES 04.5 PS, General Poster Session
General Poster Session
Contribution
Intimate partner violence is a complex phenomenon influenced by different factors as interactions between environmental conditions, personal characteristics, and interpersonal dynamics (Katerndahl, Burge, Ferrer, Becho & Wood, 2012). Most of the studies were focused at physical violence, however in the last decades has begun studied psychological and sexual violence in partners (Coker, Smith, McKeown & King, 2000; Rath, Jarratt & Leonardson, 1989). Some studies have found that psychological violence is a precursor to physical violence (O`Leary, 1999; Follingstad, Rutledge, Berg, et al. 1990) demonstrating the importance of asses the emotional/psychological violence when we study partner violence.
Dating violence in college students is also a great problem as reflected prevalence rates of aggression. Makepeace (1981) conducted the first study on the nature and prevalence of dating violence. In his research 21,2% of the students had experienced at least one personal experience of courtship violence and 61,5% had known of someone who had been involved. In a more recent study Follingstad, Wright, Lloyd & Sebastian (1991) found 28% of female and 16% of male report physical dating victimization, while 12% of male and 20% of female report being abusive toward their partners, being the difference was significant in both aggression and victimization. Shook, Gerrity, Jurich & Segrisf, (2000) concluded that more females (23%) than males (13%) were physically aggressive but they were not significantly different on verbal aggression scores (83% of females and 80% of males). The International Dating Violence Study (Straus, 2004) showed at the median 29% of the students had physically assaulted a dating partner in the previous 12 months along 31 Universities from Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America. Male and female were similar in the prevalence who physically assaulted a partner (25% of men and 28% of women at the median university), even in rates to perpetration of severe assaults (9% of both male and female). While physical and psychological aggression rates are similar by men and by woman, for sexual assault women are overwhelmingly the victims.
Programs to prevent violence in adolescents’ and young people’s couple relations, have been aimed at modification of the risk factors. In this sense, attitudes that justify couple violence have been established as an essential target for the primary prevention of this problem (Foo and Margolin 1995; O’Keefe 1997; Schwartz et al. 1997; Sears et al. 2007).
Diverse studies have reported that a considerable number of young people justify couple aggression in certain circumstances. For example, Roscoe and Benaske (1985) found that approximately 70% stated that at least one form of violence, such as slapping, punching or kicking, was acceptable. In other hand, Muñoz, Gámez-Guadix, Fernández-González et González, (2011) regarding psychological aggression, adolescents interviewed justified verbal aggression significantly more when performed by women, whereas dominant behavior was justified more when carried out by a man, and no significant differences were found for jealous tactics.
The aim of this study was contribute data the correlations between psychological violence and justification of verbal and coercive tactics in dating relationships, expecting to find positive correlations. Furthermore, we analyzed the possible differences in attitudes that justify dating violence as a function of participant’s sex and the aggressor’s sex.
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References
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