The purpose of this study were to find the general trends of college students’ dating violence behavior, to examine the difference among dating violence hehavior according to individual variables and relational variables, and to analyze the effects ...
The purpose of this study were to find the general trends of college students’ dating violence behavior, to examine the difference among dating violence hehavior according to individual variables and relational variables, and to analyze the effects of these variables influencing dating violence behavior. The subjects were 424 college students living in KwangjuㆍChonnam. The major findings were as follow:
1. 99.1% of 424 male and female respondents reported that they had experienced violence at least once. Scores of violence behaviors were lower than median.
2. The psychological violence behavior showed significant difference according to army life, attitude toward violence, motivation in dating violence, victim response, anti-communication, control, and conflict. The physical violence behavior showed significant difference according to age, grade, army life, attitude toward violence, dating motivation, motivation in dating violence, anti-communication, control, and conflict. And the sexual violence behavior showed significant difference according to
sex-role attitude, attitude toward violence, and conflict.
3. The most influential variable on all types of violence behavior was conflict.