Violencia en las parejas adolescentes. Implicaciones del sexismo y la religión

Abstract

Teen dating violence is defined as the physical, sexual, psycho-emotional violence that occurs within couple relationships duringadolescence. These are relationships thatthreaten the well-being, health or integrity ofthe couple and that use mechanisms of controlor domination of the couple through coactiveor coercive tactics.With this research we have tried to find outabout life satisfaction, the physical, psychologicaland communicative violence suffered byadolescent men and women who are religiousor not. In addition, detect sexist behaviours inyoung people of both sexes and assess behavioursbased on religious practice.A descriptive, cross-sectional and predictivestudy was carried out. Cluster randomsampling was carried out when selectingsecondary schools in South-eastern Spain.The study included 1 036 adolescents withages between 14 and 19 years old, of whom48.1 % were men and 51.9 % women.To fulfill the objectives together withdemographic and personal data, the Satisfactionwith Life Scale (SWLS) is applied, whichassesses the cognitive aspects of well-being.The Psychological Violence Scale is appliedwith the objective of assessing the psychologicaland emotional violence. To know thephysical violence and authoritarian behaviour,the Physical Violence Scale is applied.Finally, the Violence in Communication andRelationship with Others Scale is introducedfor studying online violence and relationshipviolence. The three violence scales have beenadapted, developed and validated by Sorianoand Aguilera (2017). Finally, the questionnaireon sexist behaviours collects informationon false beliefs and sexist behaviours.The data collection procedure followed thestandards set out in the Helsinki Convention(2013) for scientific research involving humanparticipants.Regarding the results, in the first of thelogistic regression models, it is good for boysto go out with many girls, but not the otherway around (Wald = 14.461; p =.000; OR =4.047), it is observed to be that boys are 4.047times more likely to agree with this attitude than girls. Also, it is statistically significantthat sometimes you have to threaten others toknow who is in charge, (Wald = 8.107; p =.004; OR = 2.173), which indicates that theboys are 2.173 times more likely in accordancewith that conduct that the girls. It is alsostatistically significant that when a woman isassaulted by her partner she will have donesomething to provoke him, (Wald = 16.315;p =.000; OR = 3.538), making it 3.538 timesmore likely that boys support this attitude thangirls. At the same time, it is statistically significantthat the violence that occurs within thehome is a family matter and should not leavethere, (Wald = 4.132; p =.042; OR = 1.694),which also indicates that boys are 1.694 timesmore likely to adopt this behaviour than girls.Regarding the perception of violence, it isobserved that men perceive more violencethan women, being significant for the threetypes of violence studied (p