scholarly journals Cyber-dating abuse in young adult couples: Relations with sexist attitudes and violence justification, smartphone usage and impulsivity

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0253180
Author(s):  
Rocío Linares ◽  
María Aranda ◽  
Marta García-Domingo ◽  
Teresa Amezcua ◽  
Virginia Fuentes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Dating Abuse ◽  
Sexist Attitudes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Direct Aggression ◽  
Cyber Dating Abuse ◽  
And Control

Technologies have become important for interaction in couples. However, in some cases, controlling and aggressive behaviors can occur in the context of virtual interactions in couples; this is known as cyber-dating abuse (CDA). Identifying factors linked to CDA, as perpetrator and victim, are relevant for its prevention; therefore, more research is needed in this novel field of study. To contribute to the literature, our first goal was to analyze the associations among certain risk factors for CDA perpetration and victimization of, i.e., sexist attitudes and violence justification, problematic smartphone usage and impulsivity; sex and age were also considered. The second goal was to study whether there were differences in direct aggression and control, from the perpetrator and victim perspectives, with consideration of the above-mentioned risk factors. Third, differences in the diverse range of control behaviors and direct aggression between women and men were explored. To this end, 697 young adults (aged between 18 and 35 years; 548 women) completed self-report questionnaires that allowed assessment of the above-mentioned variables. The results showed that, among the wide range of CDA behaviors, indirect ones such as control behaviors were the most common. The highest level of control was strongly associated with the inability to manage behaviors under certain emotional states, especially negative ones, along with problematic smartphone usage. Sex differences were also observed: men displayed more sexist attitudes and violence justification, and perceived that they were more controlled by their partners. Regarding CDA behaviors, men and women showed differences in control (e.g. men considered themselves to be more controlled in terms of location and status updates), and direct aggression (e.g. men used more insults and humiliations than women). The results were discussed in terms of the importance of better understanding these risk factors to attenuate the increasing prevalence of CDA in relationships.

Cyber dating abuse: Assessment, prevalence, and relationship with offline violence in young Chileans

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 1681-1699
Author(s):  
Laura Lara
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Prevalence Data ◽  
Dating Abuse ◽  
Common Practices ◽  
Order Factor ◽  
Direct Aggression ◽  
Cyber Dating Abuse ◽  
Dating Behaviors

The aims of the present study were to (1) adapt and validate the Cyber Dating Abuse Questionnaire (CDAQ) for young Chileans and (2) provide data on the prevalence of cyber dating abuse in young Chileans. As a sample, 1,538 Chilean high school and university students (14–24 years old) participated in the study (59.8% females). Results showed that the CDAQ had an adequate fit with the original correlated four-factor model as well as with a second-order factor model that considered the four scales as primary factors of two secondary factors: victimization (control and aggression from the victimization perspective) and perpetration (control and aggression from the perpetrator’s perspective). Reliability analysis also showed that the questionnaire presented satisfactory values for internal consistency. Scores on the CDAQ were positively correlated with traditional forms of assessing dating violence, providing new evidences of validity. Prevalence data showed cyber dating behaviors are common practices among young Chileans, with around three quarters of that population reporting being victims or aggressors. Finally, prevalence of control (around 72% for both perspectives) was higher than direct aggression (34.4% for victimization and 27% for direct aggression).

A Methodology for Identifying Ergonomics Risk Factors and Measuring the Results of Implementation of Corrective Actions

1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 717-721
Author(s):  
Marilyn Joyce ◽  
Andrew J. Marcotte ◽  
Richard Barker ◽  
Edward J. Klinenberg
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Office Environments ◽  
And Control ◽  
Administrative Tasks

A methodology for identifying ergonomics risk factors and control strategies in office environments has been developed and pilot tested. Developed as part of an overall ergonomics program being implemented by the United States Air Force, the employees impacted include both civilian and military personnel performing a wide range of administrative tasks typically performed in offices. The research design included: a focused literature review; strategic site visits; and review of criteria established by the Air Force; an iterative developmental process of a Screening Survey and an Ergonomics Assessment Methodology Guide; and testing. The results indicate that the process can be used as an effective means for identifying and controlling ergonomics hazards in administrative work areas.

scholarly journals Gambaran Pengetahuan Remaja mengenai Perilaku Cyber Dating Abuse

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yohanes Haryo Prabowo ◽  
Fitri Ariyanti Abidin ◽  
Wendyo Angganantyo ◽  
Anggi Mayangsari ◽  
Fatahya Fatahya
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Abusive Behavior ◽  
Dating Abuse ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Controlling Behavior ◽  
Cyber Dating Abuse ◽  
And Control

Abstract: Technology has a lot of impact on the development of adolescent’s romantic relationships. Previously, dating violence could only have happened offline, now can be easily done online in many different forms. The adolescent can take the benefits of digital technology to abuse and control their partner. This kind of online abusive behavior towards a romantic partner is defined in terms of “cyber dating abuse”. The main purpose of this study is to describe adolescent’s knowledge and their awareness of cyber dating abuse behavior. This study involves 52 teenagers (36 girls and 16 boys) across different ages (12-18 years old). Measurement tools are derived from set of cyber dating abuse behavior lists in Cyber Dating Abuse Questionnaire (CDAQ). The collected data is further analyzed using descriptive statistics. The result shows that CDA behavior, especially controlling behavior with new technologies and social media, tend to be tolerated by teenagers and failed to see as dating violence toward their own partner. Another finding is teenager start showing high technology usage, that makes them more vulnerable to CDA. At the end of this discussion, we suggest that immediate educational intervention about CDA for adolescent and more thorough research into another psychological aspect and social competence that could correlates with CDA needs to be done in Indonesia.Indonesian Abstract: Teknologi memiliki banyak pengaruh pada perkembangan hubungan asmara remaja. Sebelumnya, kekerasan dalam pacaran hanya bisa terjadi secara offline, kini bisa dengan mudah dilakukan secara online dalam berbagai bentuk. Para remaja dapat memanfaatkan teknologi digital untuk menyalahgunakan dan mengontrol pasangannya. Perilaku kasar online semacam ini terhadap pasangan romantis didefinisikan dalam istilah "penyalahgunaan kencan maya". Tujuan utama dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan pengetahuan remaja dan kesadarannya terhadap perilaku penyalahgunaan cyber dating. Penelitian ini melibatkan 52 remaja (36 perempuan dan 16 laki-laki) dengan berbagai usia (12-18 tahun). Alat pengukuran berasal dari kumpulan daftar perilaku penyalahgunaan kencan cyber di Cyber Dating Abuse Questionnaire (CDAQ). Data yang terkumpul dianalisis lebih lanjut dengan menggunakan statistik deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa perilaku CDA, terutama perilaku mengontrol dengan teknologi baru dan media sosial, cenderung dapat ditoleransi oleh remaja dan tidak dipandang sebagai kekerasan dalam pacaran terhadap pasangannya sendiri. Temuan lainnya adalah remaja mulai menunjukkan penggunaan teknologi tinggi, yang membuat mereka semakin rentan terhadap CDA. Di akhir pembahasan ini, kami menyarankan agar intervensi pendidikan segera tentang CDA untuk remaja dan penelitian yang lebih mendalam tentang aspek psikologis dan kompetensi sosial lainnya yang dapat berhubungan dengan CDA perlu dilakukan di Indonesia

scholarly journals The impact of cyber dating abuse on self-esteem: The mediating role of emotional distress

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlin Hancock ◽  
Haley Keast ◽  
Wendy Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Distress ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Dating Abuse ◽  
Cyber Dating Abuse ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined how emotional distress mediated the relationship between cyber dating abuse and self-esteem. Participants were 155 undergraduate students (105 females; 50 males) ranging from 17 to 25 years old (M = 19.38, SD = 1.65) with dating experience and a minimum relationship duration of 3 months. Self-report assessments of cyber dating abuse, self-esteem, and emotional distress from the relationship were completed. Mediation analysis using multiple regressions revealed a full mediation model. Cyber dating abuse predicted lowered self-esteem and greater emotional distress. However, when emotional distress was entered as a predictor of self-esteem, cyber dating abuse became non-significant, indicating full mediation. Early-onset of dating was also a risk factor for cyber dating abuse and emotional distress. Few gender differences were evident. These findings add to the growing body of evidence on the negative effects of cyber dating abuse and suggest that distressing emotional reactions may underlie the deleterious consequences of this form of abuse.

scholarly journals Associations between Feminine Gender Norms and Cyber Dating Abuse in Female Adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Villora ◽  
Santiago Yubero ◽  
Raúl Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Close Association ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
Dating Abuse ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Cyber Dating Abuse ◽  
And Control

Gender norms and the co-occurrence of perpetration and victimization behaviors have been examined as key factors of female dating violence in offline contexts. However, these relationships have not been analyzed in digital environments. This is why the present study had a twofold objective: (1) exploring the co-occurrence nature of cyber dating abuse by examining to what extent victimization and perpetration overlap; (2) examining the associations between conformity to feminine gender norms and cyber dating abuse among female adults who are perpetrators or victims. The sample study included 1041 female university students (mean age = 20.51) from central Spain. The results indicated that 35.8% of the sample reported being a victim and a perpetrator of cyber dating abuse at the same time. Indeed, the hierarchical regression analyses revealed a close association between perpetration and victimization behaviors in both the direct and control forms of abuse examined. Our analyses did not reveal any significant associations between conformity to female gender norms and perpetration or victimization for any cyber dating abuse form examined. Our results are discussed in the light of previous research and after considering limitations, practical implications and future research directions.

scholarly journals Emotional Well-Being Animal Models

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 204-204
Author(s):  
Kuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Animal Models ◽  
Neural Circuit ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Functional Activities ◽  
Neural Representations ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Brain States ◽  
And Control

Abstract Clinical studies suggest an association between EWB and the risk or progression of AD. However, the mechanistic link and causal relationship between EWB and AD remain unknown, due to limited experimental access and control of the underlying human brain processes. Animal models offer genetic control of AD mutations and neural circuit analysis tools, but subjective feelings of EWB cannot be assessed through self-report. To study EWB across species, we adopt a theoretical framework that views emotions as central brain states that respond to exteroceptive or interoceptive stimuli and cause multiple cognitive, somatic and behavioral changes. Recent neuroanatomical and functional imaging studies have identified evolutionarily related brain circuits in the encoding and regulation of central emotional states in animals. Dr. Wang will review progress in elucidating the functional activities of these circuits and discuss the challenges and opportunities to link these neural representations to EWB and AD related pathological progression.

Positive Emotion-Based Impulsivity as a Transdiagnostic Endophenotype

2019 ◽  
pp. 196-222
Author(s):  
Miji Um ◽  
Melissa A. Cyders
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Risky Behaviors ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Clinical Samples ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Clinical Disorders

Positive emotion-based impulsivity (i.e., positive urgency) is an important impulsivity-related trait associated with a wide range of problematic behaviors and clinical disorders, including substance use, alcohol dependence, pathological gambling, risky sexual behaviors, and non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors, among others. Since its identification in 2007, research has begun to better appreciate how positive emotions bias decision-making and can lead to many of the same negative outcomes that for years were primarily believed to be connected with negative emotional states. However, much still remains to be uncovered about positive urgency, including (a) how best to assess such tendencies without the limitations of self-report biases, (b) how positive urgency imparts risk in specific clinical samples, (c) which mechanisms underlie how positive urgency imparts risk, and (d) how best to intervene on or prevent positive emotion–based risky behaviors. This chapter reviews the accumulating empirical evidence for positive urgency, presents potential mechanisms for how it might affect risk-taking and clinical problems, and discusses many limitations in the current understanding that have thus far made it difficult to identify, prevent, and intervene on this tendency. There are, of course, adaptive and maladaptive features to positive emotions. The extent to which these positive emotions increase risk-taking, however, is an endophenotypic marker of mental health risk across a range of clinical disorders. Better understanding of mechanisms underlying this tendency will lead to identification of novel treatment and prevention targets with broad clinical applicability.

scholarly journals Cyber and Offline Dating Abuse in a Portuguese Sample: Prevalence and Context of Abuse

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Sónia Caridade ◽  
Hélder Fernando Pedrosa e Sousa ◽  
Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Online Risk ◽  
Dating Abuse ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Direct Aggression ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

The increasing use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and networking has promoted the occurrence of different forms of victimization, specifically in terms of interpersonal interaction (e.g., cyberbullying or online risk-taking behaviour), which also includes cyber dating abuse (CDA). Some studies report that CDA is an extension of offline dating abuse (ODA). Because Portuguese studies in this area are scarce, this study aims to bridge this knowledge gap, seeking to investigate the extent and the context of CDA occurrence, and the relationship between CDA and all forms of ODA, i.e., physical, verbal–emotional and control. A convenience sample of 173 Portuguese adolescents and young adults was studied. This sample is mostly female (86.7%), has a mean (M) age of 25.36 years old and a standard deviation (SD) of 6.88 years of age. The results show that CDA and ODA among the Portuguese are very prevalent and related. Control (31.8 vs. 20.8%) and verbal–emotional ODA (26.7 vs. 20.2%) as well as control CDA (38.2 vs. 43.4%) were the most prevalent forms of abuse, either in terms of victimization or in terms of perpetration. The results also showed that CDA usually appears in a context of jealousy, also explaining control CDA and CDA direct aggression. A significant relationship between control CDA and CDA direct aggression and physical, verbal–emotional and control ODA was found. Experiencing control and verbal–emotional ODA are the main risk factors of control CDA victimization. This study allows to lay the groundwork for further research on dating victimization and perpetration through ICT, and has important practical implications at the level of Portuguese prevention strategies and intervention policies, thus emphasizing the role of the official authorities and the law itself.

Research Participation Experiences of Informants of Suicide and Control Cases

Crisis ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 238-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul W. C. Wong ◽  
Wincy S. C. Chan ◽  
Philip S. L. Beh ◽  
Fiona W. S. Yau ◽  
Paul S. F. Yip ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Research Participation ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Initial Contact ◽  
Psychological Autopsy ◽  
Autopsy Study ◽  
The People ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

Background: Ethical issues have been raised about using the psychological autopsy approach in the study of suicide. The impact on informants of control cases who participated in case-control psychological autopsy studies has not been investigated. Aims: (1) To investigate whether informants of suicide cases recruited by two approaches (coroners’ court and public mortuaries) respond differently to the initial contact by the research team. (2) To explore the reactions, reasons for participation, and comments of both the informants of suicide and control cases to psychological autopsy interviews. (3) To investigate the impact of the interviews on informants of suicide cases about a month after the interviews. Methods: A self-report questionnaire was used for the informants of both suicide and control cases. Telephone follow-up interviews were conducted with the informants of suicide cases. Results: The majority of the informants of suicide cases, regardless of the initial route of contact, as well as the control cases were positive about being approached to take part in the study. A minority of informants of suicide and control cases found the experience of talking about their family member to be more upsetting than expected. The telephone follow-up interviews showed that none of the informants of suicide cases reported being distressed by the psychological autopsy interviews. Limitations: The acceptance rate for our original psychological autopsy study was modest. Conclusions: The findings of this study are useful for future participants and researchers in measuring the potential benefits and risks of participating in similar sensitive research. Psychological autopsy interviews may be utilized as an active engagement approach to reach out to the people bereaved by suicide, especially in places where the postvention work is underdeveloped.

Attachment Organization in Suicide Prevention Research

Crisis ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Venta ◽  
Carla Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Suicide Attempt ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Suicide Ideation ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Self Harm

Background: Identifying risk factors for suicide-related thoughts and behaviors (SRTB) is essential among adolescents in whom SRTB remain a leading cause of death. Although many risk factors have already been identified, influential theories now suggest that the domain of interpersonal relationships may play a critical role in the emergence of SRTB. Because attachment has long been seen as the foundation of interpersonal functioning, we suggest that attachment insecurity warrants attention as a risk factor for SRTB. Aims: This study sought to explore relations between attachment organization and suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and self-harm in an inpatient adolescent sample, controlling for demographic and psychopathological covariates. Method: We recruited 194 adolescents from an inpatient unit and assigned them to one of four attachment groups (secure, preoccupied, dismissing, or disorganized attachment). Interview and self-report measures were used to create four variables reflecting the presence or absence of suicidal ideation in the last year, single lifetime suicide attempt, multiple lifetime suicide attempts, and lifetime self-harm. Results: Chi-square and regression analyses did not reveal significant relations between attachment organization and SRTB, although findings did confirm previously established relations between psychopathology and SRTB, such that internalizing disorder was associated with increased self-harm, suicide ideation, and suicide attempt and externalizing disorder was associated with increased self-harm. Conclusion: The severity of this sample and methodological differences from previous studies may explain the nonsignificant findings. Nonsignificant findings may indicate that the relation between attachment organization and SRTB is moderated by other factors that should be explored in future research.

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