Sears Heather A, Byers E Sandra, Whelan John J, Saint-Pierre Marcelle
Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.
J Interpers Violence. 2006 Sep;21(9):1191-207. doi: 10.1177/0886260506290423.
This study examined adolescents' ideas about girls' and boys' use and experience of physical and psychological abuse in heterosexual dating relationships. Canadian high school students who were enrolled in Grades 9 and 11 took part in single-gender focus groups. Eight themes emerged from the analysis. The themes highlight the importance teenagers place on context for defining specific behaviors as abusive. They also underscore gender differences in the criteria adolescents use to make these judgments, in the forms of abusive behavior teenagers typically use in a dating relationship, and in the reasons for youths' declining use of physical abuse and increasing use of psychological abuse. These views have important implications for future research and for programs targeting adolescent dating violence.
本研究调查了青少年对于异性约会关系中女孩和男孩遭受身体虐待及心理虐待的看法和经历。就读于九年级和十一年级的加拿大高中生参加了单性别焦点小组。分析得出了八个主题。这些主题凸显了青少年在将特定行为界定为虐待行为时对情境的重视。它们还强调了青少年在做出这些判断所依据的标准、约会关系中青少年通常采用的虐待行为形式以及青少年减少身体虐待使用和增加心理虐待使用的原因方面存在的性别差异。这些观点对未来的研究以及针对青少年约会暴力的项目具有重要意义。
