Dating Violence: A Qualitative Study

The research design of this article is quantitative and further added to that it is also descriptive in its execution. How this is derived from this article is that it is attempting to show systematic information about the given phenomenon; in particular that of substance abuse and how it relates to the systematic variable that is being examined. The identified variable in this case is substance abuse, and how it relates to committing intimate partner violence

Throughout the world, we hear many stories about individuals being victimized, and individuals who have are the perpetrators. Also, many of these news segments are based off of headed situations between intimate relationships. Many relationships become this way because of stress about work, paying bills, past circumstances, and much more. There are many micro and macro level risk factors that pertain to victims (prior history of intimate partner violence, female sex, and youth), and perpetration (anger issues, low self-esteem, low income, and depression). “These factors are some of the very important factors that shape victimization and perpetration in intimate partner violence” (Seccombe, 2015, p.318).

The men grew up with or without a history of childhood family violence that includes angry, controlling, and violent behaviors, substance use related behavior, and attitudes towards women. With the findings, men with family violence led to severe attitudinal and behavioral problems. This source is helpful to understand the behavioral relations between the attackers and the victims.

IntroductionIn recent history, dating violence has become a paramount issue in American society. With the rates of domestic violence on the rise, much research has been conducted that provides evidence that violence during dating relationships in the teen years is a strong contributing factor to later domestic violence. Current research is revealing that a far larger percentage of teens are suffering from some amount of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse in their dating relationships. Studies have shown that both those who engage in the violent behaviors, as well as those who are the victims of these acts are more likely to be involved in violent relationships in the future. The significant number of individuals involved in these

The hypothesis of this study was that as social class decreases, incidents of intimate partner violence would increase, and that people who have received a college education are more likely to be victims than those who did not. The social class aspect of the hypothesis was supported by data, but the part of this research on education and its correlation to sexual violence was disproven by the results of this study. In regards to social class, I hypothesized that women in upper classes are less likely than those in lower classes to be victims of intimate partner violence. I reached this hypothesis because money affects the way that people are treated.

Young boys in the family who grow up watching their father mistreat their mother are more likely to abuse their spouse as they grow older. Past family history of domestic violence gives young boys the idea that women are weak and are not to be respected during their relationship. Young girls who eyewitness their family going through domestic violence are likely to be victimized by their spouse (Goldsmith 1).

As mentioned before and regarding gender, women are far more likely than men to be victims of domestic violence (Kimmel and Holler, 2011, 375). Sev’er (2002) suggests an interesting finding regarding men and women who have fallen victim or have witnessed domestic abuse in their childhood. In her findings, Sev’er concluded that in comparison to non-violent men, violent men were three times more likely to have witnessed violence as a child, meanwhile, women who were raised in violent homes were twice as likely to fall victim to a form of domestic violence as opposed to women who were not raised in non-violent homes (109). As a child, if their role models, such as their fathers, got away with violence, they would assume that violent behaviour was acceptable (Sev’er, 2002, 109)

This essay has been written to address intimidate partner violence which is one of the most prevalent type of violence against women worldwide. Intimidate partner violence includes sexual abuse as well as physical and emotional abuse moreover, controlling behaviour by a threaten partner. However, in the past, the most countries in the EU have seen intimidate partner violence as a private matter. Only in the 1990s that attitude changed and violence against women has emerged the attention by the highest level of fundamental rights where parties of the state has the duty to protect the individual and therefore, to safeguard victims (FRA – European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2012, p. 7). Alerting is the result of a multi- country study

Dating violence and sexual assault among college students is a well known phenomenon. These definitions over arch the perpetration of physical, emotional or threat abuse and a continuum of unwanted to sexual contact. One of the biggest risk factors associated with both is the consumption of alcohol. I think to decrease rates of sexual assault and dating violence on campus’s would be to get rid of the Greek system completely. Such institutions are rooted in tradition of male patriarchy and the continuum of a gender socialization process of what makes a young relationship “normal”. Males in fraternities and females in sororities are both more susceptible to hold stereotypical gender attitudes and experience sexual assault. This would be a hard plan to implement because the Greek system is such a huge tradition at college but I think a significant step like this could in fact help protect college students from dating violence and sexual assault.

In a natural survey conducted in England, women reported higher rates of intimate partner violence than men, whether the violence was physical or emotional (Jonas et al., 2014). Intimate partner violence among college students appears to be similar to research on adult married and cohabiting couples. A five-year longitudinal study of more than 2,000 college students in the United States showed that twenty-six percent of college students experienced physical intimate partner violence in their freshman year (Nabors & Jasinski, 2009). As a college student and friend of many, I believe that it is important for me become more knowledgeable about intimate partner violence and know about the characteristics of an abuser. There are four types or characteristics

Wistfully dating violence has increased tremendously today. It has gotten to the point in relationships, girls do not realize the effects their boyfriend could do to them and vice versa. Youth that experience dating violence, are more likely going through depression, involvement in antisocial behaviors, change in person, thoughts about suicide, even use of drugs.

According to (Breiding, Smith, Basile, et al. (2014) , a national Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, conducted in the U. S. in 2011 revealed, The lifetime prevalence of physical violence by an intimate partner was an estimated 31.5% among women. An estimated 22 .3% of women experienced at least one act of severe physical violence by an intimate partner during their lifetime. The lifetime prevalence of physical violence by an intimate partner was an estimated 27.5% for men. An estimated 14 of men experienced at least one act of severe physical violence by an intimate partner during their lifetimes. Where the victim/offender relationship was known, female murder victims were almost 6

In addition, because violence is a learned behavior, growing up in a violent home can contribute to someone potentially becoming abusive. Of all batterers, two-thirds witnessed domestic violence while growing up. ( Government and academic studies consistently demonstrate that the majority of victims of domestic violence are females and that batterers are overwhelmingly male.) However, many males who witnessed violence in their childhood homes have gone on to have healthy family relationships. The same is true for girls who have grown up in a violent home. Although some do become victims of abuse, others develop healthy interpersonal relationships. It is still unclear why some people are able to develop healthy relationships while others continue to repeat the cycle of violence.

This studied examined roughly 2,500 college students from two different Universities. While there are limiting factors for all studies, it should be kept in mind that this studied was only conducted at two schools in approximately a similar region of the country. However, the data found seems to be consistent with that of other studies. We know from the previous article that involvement in violent relationships seems to be a learned behavior and we know that these behaviors are problematic. Not only do these behaviors show a lack of respect for each party involved, but they also have continuous negative consequences. “Involvement in a violent relationship has been found to be related to poor mental health outcomes such as anxiety, depression, reduced self-esteem, stress, and various physical health consequences. These negative consequences indicate that the dynamics of dating violence is an important area of study for prevention and intervention efforts” (Gover, et. al, 2008). When most people think of abuse in relationships, they visualize physical violence. After all, physical violence is what is most often portrayed in the media today. However, physical violence is not the only type found in relationships, sexual, psychological, and financial abuse is also dominant. One important distinction in this study initiated by Gover et. al, is that their research also examines psychological abuse (Gover, et. al, 2008). When dating violence is brought up, often times, individuals picture women as victims and men as the perpetrators. However, both men and women have the potential to be either the victim or the perpetrator. One particularly interesting finding in Gover’s study was that “young women are more likely than men to be the perpetrators and victims of psychological abuse. In particular, research

Millions of children witness the abuse of women by their intimate partners physically. Abusive behaviors are a problem in families, not seen only through the eyes of adults but, their children as well which terms them as indirect victims. Individuals who are exposed to domestic violence as children often display the behavior issues which include violent aggressive behavior as adults (Gorman 2010). Domestic violence is defined within the field of criminology as a pattern of abuse. Domestic violence consists of acts committed in the context of adult intimate relationship. Aggressive Behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner against to gain or maintain control over another intimate partner, including physical abuse, emotional abuse and psychological abuse are wrong. (Gordis, Margolin , and John 2007) Such violence is perpetrated as intentional torts against men and women every day. All violence is unacceptable, and harmful to the victims of the actual crime and the witness. These actions also threaten the security and well-being of children within the family. (Learning network, 2012). Young males exposed to violence have lasting physical, mental, and emotional harm. Violence has a way to be introduced to all children; we define violence as destructive physical aggression intentionally directed at harming other persons or things. ( Bartol 2005 ). Humans become violent by acquiring aggressive models and actions from society. ( Bartol, 2005 p. 241) Becoming