Violence in dating relationships according to young university students
International Journal of Development Research
Violence in dating relationships according to young university students
Received 18th January, 2021; Received in revised form 01st February, 2021; Accepted 08th March, 2021; Published online 22th April, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Fernanda Gabriel Torres et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Dating violence is a phenomenon present in the relationships of adolescents and young adults, being considered a public health problem. The research aimed to know the perception of young university students about violence in dating relationships. Descriptive and quantitative study, conducted with young university students from health courses aged between 19 and 24 years. Data collection was performed by a self-administered questionnaire and data analysis was through descriptive statistics with frequency distribution and measures of central tendency and dispersion. Most of the participants were female, and practically all of them understand that jealousy is the major cause of affective violence; however, they demonstrated to know and protect themselves from situations that are configured as violence within relationships. Thus, socioeconomic and demographic data are related to the occurrence of violence and young people can identify situations of dating violence.
