Prevalence of Dating Violence and Victimization: Regional and Gender Differences

This report examines (1) the prevalence of dating violence victimization from a national sample of rural adolescents and (2) patterns by gender and region. Analyses are based on 20,274 adolescents who reported violence victimization using the Community Drug and Alcohol Survey. The relationship of da...

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Published in:Adolescence 2007, Vol.42 (168), p.645-657
Main Authors: Marquart, Beverly S, Nannini, Dawn K, Edwards, Ruth W, Stanley, Linda R, Wayman, Jeffrey C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescents
Adult
Aggression
Aggressiveness
Attitude Change
Attitudes
Biological and medical sciences
College students
Communication Skills
Courtship - psychology
Crime Victims - psychology
Crime Victims - statistics & numerical data
Criminal investigations
Cultural Traits
Culture
Data Collection - methods
Date rape
Dating
Dating (Social)
Domestic violence
Eating Disorders
Evidence
Female
Females
Gender Differences
Geographic Isolation
Geographic Regions
High School Students
Homicide
Humans
Incidence
Interpersonal Relations
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Males
Manslaughter
Medical sciences
Meta Analysis
Odds Ratio
Prevalence
Psychological aspects
Psychology, Adolescent - methods
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Racial Identification
Rape
Roles
Rural Areas
Rural Population - statistics & numerical data
Sex
Sex Distribution
Sexual Behavior - psychology
Sexual Behavior - statistics & numerical data
Social Class
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Sociocultural environment
Southern States
Spouses
Studies
Subcultures
Surveys
Teenagers
United States - epidemiology
United States of America
USA
Values
Victimization
Victimology
Victims of Crime
Violence
Violence - psychology
Violence - statistics & numerical data
Youth
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Summary:This report examines (1) the prevalence of dating violence victimization from a national sample of rural adolescents and (2) patterns by gender and region. Analyses are based on 20,274 adolescents who reported violence victimization using the Community Drug and Alcohol Survey. The relationship of dating violence with gender and region was assessed with HLM5 using Bernoulli's logistic regression. Approximately 16% of adolescents reported being a victim of dating violence. Females reported higher incidence of victimization than males. Dating violence is more prevalent in the South. While it is important to address the underlying values in society that may contribute to dating violence, it is equally productive to include regional and cultural values. (Contains 3 tables and 2 notes.)
ISSN:0001-8449