The present study investigated the relationship of personal risk factors and dating violence. Personal risk factors are sexist attitude, personality traits, and parental partner abuse. The Subjects are 292 male college students. Among them, 29.8% had...
The present study investigated the relationship of personal risk factors and dating violence. Personal risk factors are sexist attitude, personality traits, and parental partner abuse. The Subjects are 292 male college students. Among them, 29.8% had experienced some form of dating violence at least once. Sexist attitude had significant relationship with dating violence. Especially correlation between sexist attitude score and sexual coercion is very high. And Those who had experienced parental partner abuse had involved dating violence more frequently than those who had not. Lastly personality trait is investigated. Among four personalty traits, depression, anxiety, and impulsivity is significantly related to dating violence. But self-esteem is not associated with dating violence. The variables which discriminated significantly between who have experienced dating violence and who have not were identified through stepwise discriminant analysis. The variables are parental partner abuse and sexist attitude. The discussion addressed implications of the findings for future research and clinical practice.