Prevalence of Psychological Violence in Young People in the South of Spain: Implications for Prevention

Abstract: The present study shows the prevalence of psychological violence received across ten dimensions in young people aged 18 to 25 years (55.8% female) and the perception of severity, in order to design more effective dating violence prevention programs. We used a sample taken in southern Spain of 771 people. The instrument used was an adaptation of Perceived Gender Violence Scale (VGP), a perception of dating violence scales towards women through 47 behaviours. It was adapted to assess psychological violence received in men and women, maintaining psychometric properties from original (α > .94) and a factor analysis without rotation resulting in a KMO-Barlett .94. The results show that 84.4% of women and 80.2% of men have received some type of psychological violence behaviour from their last partners. The most frequent are Affective indifference (67.7%), Discrediting (51.8%) and Control (50.6%), followed by Emotional manipulation and Sexual pressure. Differences were found by age, with .... https://interpersona.psychopen.eu/index.php/interpersona/article/view/7877

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Prevalence of Psychological Violence in Young People in the South of Spain: Implications for Prevention ; volume:17 ; number:1 ; day:16 ; month:06 ; year:2023
Interpersona ; 17, Heft 1 (16.06.2023)

Creator
Lledo Rando, Carmen
Perles Novas, Fabiola
San-Martin Garcia, Jesus

DOI
10.5964/ijpr.7877
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023111014111589026106
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  • Perles Novas, Fabiola
  • San-Martin Garcia, Jesus

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