Attitudes toward dating violence among Turkish university students: The relationships with self-esteem level and gender roles

Dating Violence and Mental Health in Emerging Adulthood

“…Additionally, in both men's groups, greater dating violence perpetration was related with more traditional gender role attitudes. These data are consistent with those of other studies that have shown the relevance of sexism, gender norms, and traditional gender attitudes in dating violence [12,29,36,37,39].…”

“…Many individual factors have been cited, including (but not limited to) demographic factors such as low education, young age (adolescence and young adulthood), and low income or unemployment. Other individual risks involve low self-esteem, anger and hostility, depression and suicide attempts, delinquent or aggressive behavior as a youth, deficits in conflict resolution and problem-solving skills, heavy alcohol and drug use, antisocial personality traits, impulsivity, alexithymia, stress, history of physical or emotional abuse or neglect in childhood, emotional dependence and insecurity, traditional gender role beliefs, attitudes accepting or justifying aggression and violence, and attitudes about acceptability and expected consequences of dating violence [3,10,13,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. Relational factors cover relationship conflicts such as possessiveness, tension, or jealousy; desire for control of the relationship; association with aggressive and antisocial peers; and childhood history factors including witnessing interparental partner violence, experiencing poor parenting, and experiencing child abuse and neglect [3,10,13,[29][30][31][32][33][34].…”