Relations among Romantic Myths, Offline Dating Violence Victimization and Cyber Dating Violence Victimization in Adolescents
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Offline and Cyber Dating Violence Victimization
1.2. Myths of Romantic Love and Cyber Dating Violence Victimization
1.3. The Present Study
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Instruments
2.3. Procedure
2.4. Data Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Correlations among Variables
3.2. Offline and Cyber Dating Violence Victimization according to Adolescents’ Levels of Belief (Low vs. High) in Myths of Romantic Love
3.3. Romantic Myths and Offline Dating Violence Victimization as Predictors of Cyber Dating Violence Victimization
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
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1. Romantic Myths | −0.03 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.15 * | 0.16 * | |
2. Relational Offline DV-V | 0.10 | 0.68 ** | 0.45 ** | 0.47 ** | 0.42 ** | |
3. Verbal–emotional Offline DV-V | 0.16 * | 0.66 ** | 0.58 ** | 0.55** | 0.39 ** | |
4. Physical Offline DV-V | 0.20 ** | 0.56 ** | 0.54 ** | 0.40** | 0.46 ** | |
5. Cyber-control Victimization | 0.27 ** | 0.51 ** | 0.62 ** | 0.48 ** | 0.69 ** | |
6. Cyber-aggression Victimization | 0.23 ** | 0.55 ** | 0.53 ** | 0.69 ** | 0.54 ** |
Girls | |||||
Romantic Myths | |||||
Variables | Low | High | F | p | η2 |
Relational Offline DV-V | 1.06 (0.21) | 1.17 (0.52) | 1.525 | 0.22 | 0.018 |
Verbal–emotional Offline DV-V | 1.23 (0.30) | 1.50 (0.59) | 6.836 | 0.011 | 0.078 |
Physical Offline DV-V | 1.00 (0.00) | 1.12 (0.49) | 2.607 | 0.11 | 0.031 |
Cyber-control Victimization | 1.14 (0.20) | 1.53 (0.77) | 10.211 | 0.002 | 0.112 |
Cyber-aggression Victimization | 1.00 (0.00) | 1.17 (0.52) | 4.299 | 0.041 | 0.05 |
Boys | |||||
Romantic Myths | |||||
Low | High | F | p | η2 | |
Relational Offline DV-V | 1.23 (0.52) | 1.25 (0.48) | 0.035 | 0.851 | 0 |
Verbal–emotional Offline DV-V | 1.33 (0.51) | 1.47 (0.61) | 1.426 | 0.236 | 0.017 |
Physical Offline DV-V | 1.12 (0.45) | 1.28 (0.63) | 1.823 | 0.181 | 0.021 |
Cyber-control Victimization | 1.43 (0.63) | 1.79 (0.78) | 5.374 | 0.023 | 0.062 |
Cyber-aggression Victimization | 1.18 (0.54) | 1.45 (0.65) | 4.553 | 0.036 | 0.052 |
Boys 1 | Girls 2 | |||||
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β | t | p | β | t | p | |
Romantic myths | 0.14 | 2.539 | 0.012 | 0.16 | 3.352 | 0.001 |
Relational offline DV Victimization | 0.19 | 2.584 | 0.010 | 0.12 | 1.897 | 0.059 |
Verbal–emotional offline DV Victimization | 0.41 | 5.453 | <0.001 | 0.50 | 9.014 | <0.001 |
Physical offline DV Victimization | 0.10 | 1.477 | 0.141 | 0.18 | 3.301 | 0.001 |
Boys 1 | Girls 2 | |||||
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β | t | p | β | t | p | |
Romantic myths | 0.14 | 2.447 | 0.015 | 0.09 | 2.121 | 0.035 |
Relational offline DV Victimization | 0.29 | 4.511 | <0.001 | 0.18 | 3.025 | 0.003 |
Verbal–emotional offline DV Victimization | 0.01 | .104 | 0.917 | 0.12 | 2.059 | 0.041 |
Physical offline DV Victimization | 0.32 | 4.959 | <0.001 | 0.51 | 9.418 | <0.001 |
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Cava, M.-J.; Buelga, S.; Carrascosa, L.; Ortega-Barón, J. Relations among Romantic Myths, Offline Dating Violence Victimization and Cyber Dating Violence Victimization in Adolescents. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 1551. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051551
Cava M-J, Buelga S, Carrascosa L, Ortega-Barón J. Relations among Romantic Myths, Offline Dating Violence Victimization and Cyber Dating Violence Victimization in Adolescents. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(5):1551. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051551
Chicago/Turabian StyleCava, María-Jesús, Sofía Buelga, Laura Carrascosa, and Jessica Ortega-Barón. 2020. "Relations among Romantic Myths, Offline Dating Violence Victimization and Cyber Dating Violence Victimization in Adolescents" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 5: 1551. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051551