Abstract
The aim of this research was to know the factors associated with teen dating violence and victimization because violence in teenagers’ relationships is increasing in recent years, constituting a serious social problem. For this purpose, we analyzed teen dating violence and explored the variables (sexist attitudes, personal adjustment, clinical maladjustment, and resilience) related to teen dating violence and victimization using multinomial logistic models. The sample was composed of 268 school teenagers aged 12 to 17 from the Basque Country (Spain). Results showed that sex, age, sexism, and self-esteem predicted teen dating violence and that sex and social problems predicted victimization. Associations between the wide range of variables and types of perpetration and victimization (verbal-emotional, relational, and physical) were also explored. These results could be taken into consideration for future prevention programs.
Highlights
Teen dating violence refers to a wide range of harmful partner-directed behaviors among adolescents [1]
TDV was expected to be positively associated with sexism and clinical maladjustment and inversely associated with resilience; sex, age, sexism, maladjustment, and resilience were expected to be predictors of TDV
The results show that older participants (75.6%, 15–17-year-olds) engaged in more violent behaviors when compared to younger ones (24.4%, 12–14-year-olds), with verbal-emotional violence being the most widely used in the older adolescents (77% vs. 22%)
Summary
Teen dating violence (hereafter TDV) refers to a wide range of harmful partner-directed behaviors (psychological, physical, or sexual) among adolescents [1]. Psychological TDV refers to emotionally manipulative acts that try to damage the partner indirectly. Physical TDV include acts such as shoving, slapping, punching, kicking, choking, or burning. Sexual TDV includes sexual activity forced on the partner, ranging from behaviors such as unwanted touching to forced penetration. This study focuses on physical and psychological (verbal-emotional and relational) TDV. Some research shows that the magnitude of TDV is even greater than violence in adult dating relationships [6,7]. Violence does not appear suddenly in adult relationships, but instead, problems of violence start in adolescence [8]
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