Dating Violence Victimization among Adolescents in Europe: Baseline Results from the Lights4Violence Project

Carmen Vives-Cases, Belén Sanz-Barbero, Alba Ayala, Vanesa Pérez-Martínez, Miriam Sánchez-SanSegundo, Sylwia Jaskulska, Ana Sofia Antunes das Neves, Maria João Forjaz, Jacek Pyżalski, Nic Bowes, Dália Costa, Katarzyna Waszyńska, Barbara Jankowiak, Veronica Mocanu and María Carmen Davó-Blanes
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Carmen Vives-Cases: Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
Belén Sanz-Barbero: CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), 28029 Madrid, Spain
Alba Ayala: Department of Statistics, University Carlos III of Madrid, 28903 Madrid, Spain
Vanesa Pérez-Martínez: Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
Miriam Sánchez-SanSegundo: Department of Psychology of Health, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
Sylwia Jaskulska: Faculty of Educational Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61-712 Poznan, Poland
Ana Sofia Antunes das Neves: Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Institute University of Maia, 4475-690 Maia, Portugal
Maria João Forjaz: National School of Public Health, Carlos III Institute of Health, 28029 Madrid, Spain
Jacek Pyżalski: Faculty of Educational Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61-712 Poznan, Poland
Nic Bowes: Department of Applied Psychology, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff CF52YB, UK
Dália Costa: Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Institute University of Maia, 4475-690 Maia, Portugal
Katarzyna Waszyńska: Faculty of Educational Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61-712 Poznan, Poland
Barbara Jankowiak: Faculty of Educational Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61-712 Poznan, Poland
Veronica Mocanu: Faculty of Medicine, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 700115 Iasi, Romania
María Carmen Davó-Blanes: Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 4, 1-11

Abstract: 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 Europe. 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.

Keywords: dating violence; adolescents; risk factors; machismo; acceptance of violence; sexism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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