Advancing our approach to teen dating violence: A youth and professional defined framework of teen dating relationships.

Abstract Objective: To describe and analyze teen dating violence with adolescents of a public school in a city in the state of São Paulo. Method: Qualitative research, anchored by the Paradigm of Complexity. Data collection was carried out with 16 students of the 11st year of high school, through focus groups and semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was based on the thematic modality. Results: There emerged three themes, which made it possible to understand that the myth of romantic love has still present in intimate relationships; as an aspect of these myths, jealousy is revealed as inherent in relationships, while time triggering teen dating violence at the same. Digital social networks have been throughout this process; the family and the school emerge as contexts that expose adolescents to vulnerability, including the experience of other violence manifestations. Conclusion and implications for practice: Multidimensional, retroactive and interdependent nature of the aspects related to teen dating violence were identified. Promotion of healthy dating relationships from the deconstruction of romantic love myths; safe use of virtual social networks by adolescents; actions to promote healthy parenting and articulation of health-school-family, with the empowerment of these spaces as factors to protect violence involving adolescents are necessary.

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Parental Style, Dating Violence and Gender

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph16152722 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (15) ◽

pp. 2722 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Muñiz-Rivas ◽

Vera ◽

Povedano-Díaz

Keyword(s):

Dating Violence ◽

Parenting Style ◽

Parenting Styles ◽

Teen Dating Violence ◽

Child Rearing ◽

Dating Relationships ◽

Adolescent Relationships ◽

Teen Dating ◽

And Gender ◽

And Control

The relationship between parenting styles and teen dating violence has become a relevant research topic in recent years, especially related to violence inflicted online. To more fully understand this relationship, the objective of the present study was to examine which parenting style (authoritarian, indulgent, authoritative, or neglectful) best protects against dating violence in adolescent relationships. A total of 1132 adolescents of both sexes participated in this study (46.4% boys and 53.6% girls), with ages between 14 and 18 years old (M = 15.6, SD = 1.3). A multivariate factorial design was applied (MANOVA, 4 × 2), using the parenting style, the parents’ gender, and the adolescents’ gender as independent variables, and the dating violence dimensions (online and offline) as dependent variables. As the results show, the lowest scores on all the dating violence dimensions examined were obtained by adolescents from indulgent families. In addition, three interaction effects were observed between the mother’s parenting style and the adolescent’s gender on online violence (e-violence and control), and the father’s parenting style on offline violence (verbal-emotional). Thus, adolescents with authoritarian mothers obtained the highest scores on violence and control inflicted online, respectively, and adolescent girls with authoritarian fathers obtained the highest scores on verbal-emotional violence. These findings suggest that the indulgent style is the parenting style that protects against violence in teen dating relationships, and they also highlight the risks of the authoritarian style as a family child-rearing model.

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Patterns of Perpetration and Perceptions of Teen Dating Violence

Psico-USF ◽

10.1590/1413-82712020250203 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 235-245

Author(s):

Jeane Lessinger Borges ◽

Jaqueline Portella Giordani ◽

Bruna Wendt ◽

Clarissa Marcela Trentini ◽

Débora Dalbosco Dell’Aglio

Keyword(s):

Romantic Relationships ◽

Dating Violence ◽

Comparison Group ◽

Teen Dating Violence ◽

Marital Violence ◽

Metropolitan Region ◽

Rio Grande Do Sul ◽

Dating Relationships ◽

Porto Alegre ◽

Teen Dating

Abstract This study investigated patterns of perpetration and perceptions of teen dating violence (TDV) in a sample of 428 adolescents characterized as perpetrators (62.4% female, M=16.73 years of age, SD=1.20) from the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil. There was also a comparison group of 132 non-perpetrators (51.5% female, M=16.54 years of age, SD=1.19). The research instruments were a sociodemographic questionnaire, 15 items about the perception of TDV and the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory (CADRI). We found a rate of 76.43% for the perpetration of some type of TDV and the most frequent was verbal/emotional violence (91.1%). The data showed that adolescents (perpetrators and non-perpetrators) have difficulty recognizing abusive behaviors, legitimizing the use of violence in their romantic relationships. Considering dating violence is a predictor of adult marital violence, the need to raise awareness of the phenomenon and the possibility of preventing TDV is discussed in this study.

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Development and Validation of the Teen Dating Aggression Measure Among Canadian Youth

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.763210 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Ryan J. Persram ◽

Tracy K. Y. Wong ◽

Luis Francisco Vargas-Madriz ◽

Chiaki Konishi ◽

Nicole S. J. Dryburgh ◽

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Keyword(s):

Relational Aggression ◽

Dating Violence ◽

Teen Dating Violence ◽

Psychological Aggression ◽

Traumatic Experience ◽

Dating Aggression ◽

Dating Relationships ◽

Canadian Youth ◽

Teen Dating ◽

And Control

Teen dating violence (TDV) victimization is a traumatic experience that can have adverse consequences for adolescents. Current measures that assess TDV do not fully distinguish between psychological and relational forms of aggression, nor do they capture aggressive acts that are common within adolescent relationships. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Teen Dating Aggression Measure (TeDAM) using a sample of 730 Canadian adolescents (M = 15.88 years, SD = 1.23). The measure is an expansion of the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory and includes items that describe other forms of violence such as coercion and control, along with more traditional indicators of dating violence (e.g., sexual aggression). Factor analyses yielded three factors, namely psychological aggression, sexual and physical aggression, and relational aggression, which were correlated with more frequent cannabis and alcohol use as well as rape myth acceptance. These results provide initial support for the utility of the TeDAM for assessing TDV with adolescents.

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