Abuso cibernético en el noviazgo y relación intrafamiliar en adolescentes estudiantes mexicanos

Abstract

El alcance de la tecnología ha permitido que comportamientos abusivos en las relaciones de noviazgo sean vividos a través de medios electrónicos e internet. El objetivo del estudio fue determinar la existencia de asociación entre el abuso cibernético en el noviazgo (ACN) y la relación intrafamiliar (RI) en adolescentes estudiantes mexicanos ajustada por sexo, consumo de alcohol y violencia cara a cara en el noviazgo. Participaron 394 adolescentes con edades de entre 15 y 18 años (62,4% mujeres). Se encontró que el 62,2% de los participantes fueron víctimas de control/vigilancia y el 35% de agresión directa. Todas las dimensiones de RI obtuvieron puntuaciones intermedias. El modelo de ecuaciones estructurales mostró una asociación negativa entre el ACN y la RI con una fuerza de asociación pequeña (β= -0,18; p< 0,01). Sería recomendable en programas de prevención del ACN fortalecer en la familia la comunicación, la unión, el apoyo y la solución asertiva de conflictos. Futuros estudios podrían añadir al modelo otras variables que expliquen al ACN.

Control Violence Begins in Adolescent Dating: A Research from Students’ Perception

“…These results confirm the findings of other re-search works, where girls exercise more control violence [ 8 , 19 , 22 , 27 , 43 , 53 ]. The results differ with those obtained by other authors, who found that these types of behaviors were more unequally used, finding greater victimization in girls [ 36 , 51 , 54 , 55 ] and with other studies that concluded that such violence was used by both boys and girls in a similar way [ 9 , 24 , 56 , 57 , 58 ].…”

“…Through the results, we can observe that more than a third of the respondents claim to have received controlling violence from their partner, and a little less than that third of the sample, reports having exercised, on some occasion, some type of controlling violence, especially when this is mainly carried out through mobile devices. These results confirm those obtained by various authors who have investigated this prevalence, placing it in similar ranges, although slightly higher than those obtained in this research [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 42 , 44 , 51 , 52 ].…”

“…Situations of abuse can begin in courtship, reproducing models of inequality in their relationships and sometimes responding to sexist stereotypes in their behavior, which are nuanced by the conditions of the cultural context, where, in many cases, traditional and sexist gender stereotypes are reinforced, which undoubtedly facilitate the emergence of violence in the couple [ 4 , 5 ]. If we review the body of literature and evaluation studies on teen dating violence or abuse [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ], we find that there is no uniform definition of such violence. However, there is a clear consensus that, in teen couples, adolescent violence resembles adult domestic violence as a pattern of abusive behavior used to control the other person [ 10 ].…”

“…We have verified that before the appearance of interpersonal violence there is an important set of laws that try to prevent the emergence of this violence among adolescents and despite this. This fact has increased considerably its intensity and assiduity and has become a serious problem in the current 21st century [ 41 ], and no solutions have been found yet to attack it forcefully [ 2 ] both from the field of physical abuse and through the use of ICT [ 7 , 8 , 11 , 42 , 43 ], or other technological means [ 9 , 44 ].…”

Cyberviolence in young couples and its predictors

“…In terms of gender, the results reported by previous studies are far from conclusive. Some found higher rates of cybervictimization among girls (Burkle et al 2011;Sourander et al, 2010;Zweig et al, 2013), whereas others claimed that boys suffer from cyberviolence more frequently than their female counterparts (Donoso et al, 2017;Piquer et al, 2017), and also perpetrate it more often (Buelga et al, 2010;Calvete et al, 2010;Durán & Martínez, 2015;Gabarda et al, 2021;Javier-Juárez et al, 2021). Other studies, however, failed to find any significant differences between boys and girls (Bennet, et al 2011;Didden et al, 2009), reporting that both perpetrate and suffer from dating cyberviolence in equal measure.…”