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. 2020 Jul-Dec;13(2):36-48.
doi: 10.21500/20112084.4364.

Adolescent Conflict and Young Adult Couple Relationships: Directionality of Violence

Susana Gaspara Paíno-Quesada  1 , Noelia Aguilera-Jiménez  2 , Luís Rodríguez-Franco  3 , Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Díaz  4 , Jose Ramón Alameda-Bailén  1
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Adolescent Conflict and Young Adult Couple Relationships: Directionality of Violence

Susana Gaspara Paíno-Quesada et al. Int J Psychol Res (Medellin). 2020 Jul-Dec.

Abstract
in English, Spanish

The objective of this research was to study victimization and aggression in adolescent and young couple relationships, as well as to identify the directionality of violence perpetration in a sample of 984 people between 15 and 31 years of age, of which 58.2% were women and 41.8% were men. Regarding the educational level of the population under study, 26% were students of junior high school, senior high school, or vocational training and 56.5% were college students. The research design followed the nonprobability purposive sampling method and used the DVQ-R questionnaire. The results suggest that violence is 65.2% bidirectional and 14.30% unidirectional, being bidirectionality more frequent in psychological violence and decreasing when physical violence occurs. The results reveal the need to integrate the different modalities of dating violence (unidirectional and bidirectional) and unperceived violence -that gives rise to technical abuse- into the different prevention programs addressed to adolescents and youth.

El objetivo de esta investigación ha sido estudiar la victimización y la agresión en las relaciones de parejas adolescentes y jóvenes, así como comprobar la direccionalidad de la violencia perpetrada a través del estudio de 984 personas. Las edades están comprendidas entre los 15 y los 31 años de edad. En cuanto a la distribución de los sexos, el 58.2% son mujeres y el 41.8% restante hombres. Respecto al nivel educativo de la muestra, el 56.5% son universitarios y el 26% tienen estudios secundarios, bachillerato o formación profesional. El diseño de la investigación ha sido de tipo no probabilístico intencional. Se utilizó el Cuestionario Cuvino-R (Rodríguez-Díaz et al., 2017). Los resultados indican que la violencia se muestra bidireccional en un 65,2% y unidireccional en un 14,30%, siendo la bidireccionalidad más frecuente en la violencia psicológica, y disminuyendo cuando se agrava la conducta con violencia física. Con base en estos resultados, se debería discutir la necesidad de integrar las diferentes modalidades de violencia en la relación (Unidireccional o Bidireccional) y la violencia no percibida que da lugar al maltrato técnico en los diferentes campos de la prevención con adolescentes y jóvenes.

Keywords: Adolescents; Bidirectional Violence; Dating Violence; Perpetration; Unidirectional Violence.; Victimization; Youth.

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Figura 1. Classification tree of victimization according to sex
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Figure 2. Classification tree of perpetretion according to sex
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Figure 3. Prevalence of perception of abuse according to the sex of the group
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