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Physical violence in young Chilean couples: Association with the relationship quality

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  • Viejo, Carmen
  • Rincón, Paulina
  • Ortega-Ruiz, Rosario

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Objective: In Chile, between 7 and 24% of young people claim to be victims of physical violence in their romantic relationships, but there is a lack of validated questionnaires to measure these behaviors and research in this area is still limited. Due to this fact, adapting and validating the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS; Straus, 1979; Straus et al., 1996) with multi-group confirmatory factor analysis was conducted in this paper; afterword, it aims to analyze the violence involvement within the young couples (dating violence) in Chile, and its association with the perceived quality of the relationship. Method: 1283 university students participated (69.1% women; 30.9% men; mean age = 21.94; s.d. = 1.871). Results: A bi-factorial model of the CTS (moderate vs severe behaviors) with sex invariance among the youth population in Chile was confirmed. Between 15 and 25% of involvement in moderate violence was pointed out; these behaviors have high percentages of reciprocity and are occasional. The negative quality variables such as imbalance of power or conflicts are related to higher rates of involvement in violence, but not the positive quality variables such as communication. Conclusions: this paper represents a novel contribution for Dating Violence analysis in the Latin American context; it establishes a validated and invariance measure for analyzing Dating Violence with Chilean youth population, and pointed out high rates of involvement on this violent behaviors. Its value for the development of precautionary policies and suitable intervention has to be considered.

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  • Viejo, Carmen & Rincón, Paulina & Ortega-Ruiz, Rosario, 2018. "Physical violence in young Chilean couples: Association with the relationship quality," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 217-225.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:93:y:2018:i:c:p:217-225
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.07.021
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