Abstract
(1) Background: Dating violence (DV) among adolescents constitutes a serious problem, not only because of the magnitude of the phenomenon, but also because of the seriousness of the personal and social consequences derived from it. The objectives of this study were the following: to analyze the prevalence of DV among adolescents in residential care and in schools, according to sex, age and origin, and to analyze the prevalence of the types of violence and victimization, according to the residential care resource and the school. (2) Methods: The sample consisted of adolescents in residential care in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country (Spain) (n = 271) and adolescents in schools (n = 268) aged between 12 and 17 years. (3) Results: The results showed a higher prevalence of DV in adolescents in residential care than that found in other studies with a normative sample. (4) Conclusions: These results support the need for work and research with these minors in residential care. It also gives an important weight to sociodemographic variables, such as age and sex, and also to the types of violence and victimization, i.e., variables to be taken into account in the intervention with adolescents. Future educational programs should consider DV prevention and children in residential care.
Highlights
Some research indicates that the magnitude of dating violence (DV) is even higher than violence in adult relationships [1,2]
The fact of using different tools for measuring DV may be one of the reasons for the differences between the results found in this study and those found in other studies
It can be concluded that the rates of prevalence and victimization of DV in adolescents in schools are similar to those found in other studies and, because between the two samples in this study, it is the adolescents in residential care who showed higher rates of prevalence and victimization than those found in adolescents in schools
Summary
Some research indicates that the magnitude of dating violence (DV) is even higher than violence in adult relationships [1,2]. Straus and Ramirez [4] found rates of DV perpetration among young university students of between 25% and 45%, these percentages being higher than those obtained from among the married couples in their sample (between 10% and 15%). Other studies with a university sample show even higher percentages, as in the study by Murray et al [5], which found that 73% of their sample reported having perpetrated DV in the last month. Research with adolescents estimates rates of DV perpetration ranging from 9% to 51% ([6,7,8,9]). Other authors indicate that DV is influenced by multiple variables (country, culture, gender, type of violence, etc.) and that DV perpetration rates range from 9% to
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