Directionality of physical and psychological dating violence among adolescents in Recife, Brazil

Abstract

It was concluded that adolescent dating violence shows a pattern where partners attack each other, both physically and psychologically. Future research should study the patterns of these acts of violence, keeping the adolescent couple as the unit of analysis and exploring the context in which such violence occurs.

Perceptions and predictors of dating violence among nursing and midwifery students

“…We found that DV was prevalent among the participants and verbal and psychological violence were the most frequently experienced types of violence in dating relationships, while sexual violence was the least frequently experienced type of violence in dating relationships. These results of the research are consistent with the literature (Barreira et al., ; Boladale, Yetunde, Adesanmi, Olutayo, & Olanrewaju, ; Chan et al., ; Fernandez‐Fuertes & Fuertes, ; Ferreira et al., ; Foshee, Reyes et al., ; Lehrer, Lehrer, & Zhao, ; Ohnishi et al., ; Shorey et al., ; Volpe et al., ; Zhang et al., ). Researchers have identified psychological violence as the most common type of bidirectional violence perpetration in dating relationships (Chan, ; Ferreira et al., ; Ohnishi et al., ; Toplu‐Demirtas et al., ; Volpe et al., ; Zhang et al., ).…”

“…We primarily used a modified version of Aslan et al. () questionnaire, with some ideas for the instrument adapted from the DV literature (Aslan et al., ; Barreira et al., ; Latzman, Vivolo‐Kantor, Holditch Niolon, & Ghazarian, ; Ohnishi et al., ). The questionnaire consisted of two parts.…”

“…Previous studies have focused on women's experiences of violence in marital relationships and on men as domestic violence perpetrators. However, recent studies have indicated that violence outside marriage is more common as “mutual abuse” (Barreira, de Lima, Bigras, Njaine, & Assis, ; Ferreira et al., ; Miller, ; Volpe, Hardie, & Cerulli, ).…”

Violência contra mulher no namoro: percepções de jovens universitários

“…Além disso, outras questões também contribuem para a falta de reconhecimento, a exemplo, o termo "violência" estar relacionado culturalmente à criminalidade, prejudicando a iden fi cação quando come da por pessoas com vínculo ín mo de afeto, como os parceiros afe vos-sexuais. Mesmo quando não iden fi cado, o fenômeno caracteriza-se como problema social que inegavelmente demanda inves gações e intervenções (Barreira, Lima, Bigras, Njaine, & Assis, 2014).…”

“…No Brasil, es ma-se que são agredidas, violentamente, cinco mulheres a cada dois minutos e, de cada dez mulheres, uma já teria sido espancada alguma vez durante a vida (Fundação Perseu Abramo, 2010). Barreira et al (2014), em pesquisa com jovens, iden fi caram prevalência de 83,9% de violência no namoro. Essa disparidade pode estar relacionada à difi culdade dos jovens em nomear e iden fi car a violência e às diferentes metodologias abordadas nos estudos.…”