TY - JOUR
T1 - Dating violence victimization among adolescents in europe
T2 - Baseline results from the lights4violence project
AU - Vives-Cases, Carmen
AU - Sanz-Barbero, Belén
AU - Ayala, Alba
AU - Pérez-Martínez, Vanesa
AU - Sánchez-Sansegundo, Miriam
AU - Jaskulska, Sylwia
AU - Antunes Das Neves, Ana Sofia
AU - Forjaz, Maria João
AU - Pyżalski, Jacek
AU - Bowes, Nic
AU - Costa, Dália
AU - Waszyńska, Katarzyna
AU - Jankowiak, Barbara
AU - Mocanu, Veronica
AU - Davó-Blanes, María Carmen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2021/2/3
Y1 - 2021/2/3
N2 - Dating violence (DV) among adolescents is a public health issue because of its negative health consequences. In this study, we aimed to analyse the prevalence and the psychosocial and socioeconomic risk and protective factors associated DV among male and female adolescents in Eu-rope. It was performed a cross-sectional study based on a non-probabilistic sample of 1555 students aged 13–16 years (2018–2019). The global prevalence of DV victimization was significantly greater among girls than boys (girls: 34.1%, boys: 26.7%; p = 0.012). The prevalence of DV in both girls and boys was greater for those over age 15 (girls: 48.5% p < 0.001; boys: 35.9%; p = 0.019). There was an increased likelihood of DV victimization among girls whose fathers did not have paid employment (p = 0.024), who suffered abuse in childhood, and reported higher Benevolent Sexism [PR (CI 95%): 1.01 (1.00–1.03)] and machismo [1.02 (1.00–1.05)]. In the case of boys, the likelihood of DV increased with abuse in childhood (p = 0.018), lower parental support [0.97 (0.96–0.99)], high hostile sexism scores (p = 0.019), lower acceptance of violence (p = 0.009) and high machismo (p < 0.001). Abuse in childhood was shown to be the main factor associated with being a victim of DV in both population groups, as well as sexism and machismo attitudes. These results may contribute to future DV prevention school programs for both, teenagers and children of elementary school ages.
AB - Dating violence (DV) among adolescents is a public health issue because of its negative health consequences. In this study, we aimed to analyse the prevalence and the psychosocial and socioeconomic risk and protective factors associated DV among male and female adolescents in Eu-rope. It was performed a cross-sectional study based on a non-probabilistic sample of 1555 students aged 13–16 years (2018–2019). The global prevalence of DV victimization was significantly greater among girls than boys (girls: 34.1%, boys: 26.7%; p = 0.012). The prevalence of DV in both girls and boys was greater for those over age 15 (girls: 48.5% p < 0.001; boys: 35.9%; p = 0.019). There was an increased likelihood of DV victimization among girls whose fathers did not have paid employment (p = 0.024), who suffered abuse in childhood, and reported higher Benevolent Sexism [PR (CI 95%): 1.01 (1.00–1.03)] and machismo [1.02 (1.00–1.05)]. In the case of boys, the likelihood of DV increased with abuse in childhood (p = 0.018), lower parental support [0.97 (0.96–0.99)], high hostile sexism scores (p = 0.019), lower acceptance of violence (p = 0.009) and high machismo (p < 0.001). Abuse in childhood was shown to be the main factor associated with being a victim of DV in both population groups, as well as sexism and machismo attitudes. These results may contribute to future DV prevention school programs for both, teenagers and children of elementary school ages.
KW - Acceptance of violence
KW - Adolescents
KW - Dating violence
KW - Machismo
KW - Risk factors
KW - Sexism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100234212&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/ijerph18041414
DO - 10.3390/ijerph18041414
M3 - Article
C2 - 33546373
AN - SCOPUS:85100234212
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 18
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 4
M1 - 1414
ER -
