Cyber Dating Violence Perpetration: Prevalence, Frequency and Variables Associated in Adolescents and Young Adults
Keywords:
Dating violence, adolescents, young adults, perpetration, cyberviolenceAbstract
This study compared by sex the prevalence and frequency of perpetration of cyber dating violence (CDV), between 2023 Colombian adolescents and young adults between 13-40 years (53% women) and explored the relationship among CDV perpetration with CDV victimization and the perpetration of psychological dating violence (DV), implementing the following statistical analyses: Chi-squared, odds ratio, and multiple linear regression. The 76% of the participants reported having 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 behaviors 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 the participants who perpetrated psychological DV (OR=6.539). The frequency of CVD behaviors suffered (B=.736; p=.000) and the frequency of psychological DV perpetrated (B=.113; p=.000) explained 62.6% of the variance of the frequency of CDV behaviors perpetrated. These results indicate that the risk of perpetration increases with victimization and performance of traditional psychological DV, aspects that should be considered for the prevention of CDV.
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