Violence, control, romance and gender equality: Young women and heterosexual relationships

Associations Among Aspects of Interpersonal Power and Relationship Functioning in Adolescent Romantic Couples

“…Assessment of power dynamics has been described as essential facet of understanding romantic relationship functioning among adult couples (e.g., Frieze and McHugh 1992), as well as adolescent couples (Chung 2005;Galliher et al 1999). In Western culture, equity in romantic relationships is conceived as a central characteristic of optimal relationship functioning (e.g., Halloran 1998;Rampage 1994;Sprecher and Felmlee 1997).…”

“…Interpersonal power, while widely studied in the adult romantic relationships literature, has rarely been considered in the context of adolescent dating relationships (e.g., Chung 2005;Galliher et al 1999). The well established links between power discrepancies and negative relationship or individual outcomes for adult relationship partners (e.g., Felmlee 1994;Gray-Little and Burks 1983;Halloran 1998;Steil 1997;Steil and Turetsky 1987), have therefore not been widely replicated in younger samples.…”

Violencia en las relaciones amorosas y violencia conyugal: Convergencias y divergencias. Reflexiones para un debate

“…Finalmente, la influencia de los(as) amigos(as) y la necesidad de aprobación del grupo de referencia serían expuestos como factores relevantes en las experiencias de jóvenes. La literatura ha documentado al grupo de pares como un elemento de contexto que expone ciertas diferencias entre adolescentes y adultos y que podría tener repercusiones en las experiencias y uso de la violencia (Arriaga et al, 2004;Ismail et al, 2007;Chung, 2005;Próspero, 2007).…”

'He said he loved me. I wanted to be loved': Young women's experiences of coping with violence in intimate relationships.

“…Moreover, McCosker et al (2004) stated the six women they interviewed regarding IPV during the childbearing years identified their loss of identity and self during the relationship, IPV as mentally damaging and lowering their self-esteem, and IPV negatively changing who they were in the relationship. Other articles also detail how the breakdown of a woman's self-identity is part of her IPV experience and forms part of her new identity within the confines of the relationship (Chung, 2005;Draucker, 2003;Flinck et al, 2005;Weseley, Allison, & Schneider, 2000). Women feel like they are living an unnatural experience (Lutenbacher et al, 2003) and find themselves changed because of IPV.…”

“…All the co-researchers believed it was possible to achieve their concept of an ideal relationship, which was a relationship with a man who offered romantic love, emotional validation and understanding, and supported their means of living. Women's attempts to change their IPV relationships into their ideal relationship is not a new finding in the literature (Chung, 2005;Flinck et al, 2005;Lilly, 2008;Zink et al, 2006) and occurs for women of differing age groups (Zink et al, 2006). Women in an IPV relationship tend to believe a violent relationship is better than no relationship and is what they are worthy of; thus, they attempt to mould their relationship into their concept of what an ideal relationship would be (Wesely, Allison, & Schneider, 2000).…”