Cyber Dating Violence Perpetration: Prevalence, Frequency and Variables Associated in Adolescents and Young Adults

Abstract

Little is known about the variables that could be related to cyber dating vio-lence (CDV). This study compared by sex the prevalence and frequency of perpetration of CDV between 2023 Colombian adolescents and young adults (53 % women) between 13-40 years (M=17.92; SD=3.6), and explored the re-lationship among CDV perpetration with CDV victimization and the perpe-tration of psychological dating violence (DV), implementing the statistical analyses Chi-squared, odds ratio, and multiple linear regression. The ins-truments used were CDAQ y CEPA. The 76 % of the participants reported ha-ving perpetrated some CDV behavior at least once or twice in the last year. Not finding differences by sex in the prevalence and the frequency of beha-viors perpetrated. The probability of perpetrating CDV was 81 times higher among the participants who reported CDV victimization (OR=81.206), and 6 times higher among those who perpetrated psychological DV (OR=6.539). The frequency of CVD behaviors suffered (B=.736; p=.000) and the frequen-cy of psychological DV perpetrated (B=.113; p=.000) explained 62.6% of the variance of the frequency of CDV behaviors perpetrated. These results indi-cate that the risk of perpetration increases with victimization and perfor-mance of traditional psychological DV, aspects that should be considered for its prevention.