Teen Dating Violence in French-speaking Switzerland: Attitudes and Experiences

Abstract: Research on dating violence has tended to focus on North American college students. This study innovates with data collected in Switzerland from a sample of 132 school pupils and vocational education students aged 14 to 22 using a self-administered questionnaire. The study investigates relationships between attitudes and experiences about dating violence and the effect of gender. Biases against women were common in the sample. Females reported less endorsement of patriarchal attitudes about women’s roles, but both genders reported similar levels of disparagement of women. Participants reported high rates of physical violence perpetration (41.9 percent) and victimization (48.8 percent). Pro-violence attitudes were related to psychological and physical perpetration as well as physical victimization. For female respondents, essentialist beliefs about women’s innate abilities appear more persistent than beliefs about appropriate roles. Male participants endorsed both types of gende.... https://www.ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/3062

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Teen Dating Violence in French-speaking Switzerland: Attitudes and Experiences ; volume:8 ; number:2 ; day:22 ; month:06 ; year:2015 ; International journal of conflict and violence ; 8, Heft 2 (22.06.2015)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Jacqueline De Puy ; Sherry L. Hamby ; Caroline Lindemuth

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.4119/ijcv-3062
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020062211020294396624
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 14.08.2025, 10:52 MESZ