Abstract
This paper presents the results of a research project that included the application of a survey in 597 university students in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Tijuana, México, whose central aim was to examine the degree of violence in intimate couples, including that of men towards women and women against men, in different countries. It also explores the level of knowledge and analyzes the degree of awareness that the samples have about existing abuse. The results show similarity in the exercise of violence by both sexes; aspects of hegemonic masculinity that still permeates both, and the need for studies that have a real impact on education against this problem. This, irrespectively of age and socio-economic stratum to which both sexes belong.
Highlights
This paper presents the results of a research project that included the application of a survey in 597 university students in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Tijuana, México, whose central aim was to examine the degree of violence in intimate couples, including that of men towards women and women against men, in different countries
The results show similarity in the exercise of violence by both sexes; aspects of hegemonic masculinity that still permeates both, and the need for studies that have a real impact on education against this problem
The Encuesta de Salud Reproductiva en la Adolescencia de Baja California (Survey of Reproductive Health in Adolescents of Baja California) found that 47.6 percent of the youth population in Baja California experienced some type of non-extreme violence from their intimate partner
Summary
This paper presents the results of a research project that included the application of a survey in 597 university students in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Tijuana, México, whose central aim was to examine the degree of violence in intimate couples, including that of men towards women and women against men, in different countries. The Encuesta de Salud Reproductiva en la Adolescencia de Baja California (Survey of Reproductive Health in Adolescents of Baja California) found that 47.6 percent of the youth population in Baja California experienced some type of non-extreme violence from their intimate partner This result was only six percentage points below the number of young women who found themselves in the same situation (El Colef, 2006). It indicates that in certain contexts men are being educated in a non-traditional manner in which they are taught to respect women "which may explain why many of them, they perceive their female partnersbehavior as violent, learn to tolerate and live with it" (Ramírez, 2002, p. 350)
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